CTCRy 100 (ex-Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railway #100, exx-Yreka Western #100, exxx-Southern Pacific #10) was built in 1954 by Budd (builder's #5917). It is a standard production, all steel, model RDC-1 with 68 seats. Weight is 59 tons. The car has a pair of 275 hp General Motors diesel engines connected to torque converters that power one axle on each truck. It can cruise easily at 70 mph. Maximum recommended speed is 84 mph.

This Budd car was bought when the SP was compelled to continue providing passenger service along the San Francisco-Oakland to Sacramento line. Purchase of #10 (at approximately $175,000) allowed the Southern Pacific to remove 4 daytime steam passenger trains from service. RDC service commenced on 4 April 1954 and continued until March 1959. After the Oakland-Sacramento run was discontinued in March 1959, #10 was leased to the Northwestern Pacific. As built she had cabs, and controls, on both ends, but a grade crossing encounter with a truck loaded with railroad ties on 7 October 1960 destroyed one end. When repaired, she was a one-ended car, with a baggage section replacing the demolished cab, and seating was reduced from 89 to 68. Northwestern Pacific, a subsidiary of SP, operated the RDC on the Redwood Empire Route between Willits and Eureka, CA, until May 1971 when Amtrak was formed. She was sold to the Yreka Western in July 1971 and became car #100, then later was sold to the Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railway in Cottage Grove, OR (the Yreka Western, for whom this car once worked, continued to operate tourist passenger service, until it filed for abandonment in 1999).

The Museum purchased the RDC in 1975 from the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern. She has a steel frame and is sheathed in unpainted stainless steel except for a horizontal red stripe on the body. She is currently being restored and is not open to the public. For more information on the RDC, see Munger (1996).

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