Two second-hand General Electric J47-19 jet engines, originally used as boosters for the Convair B-36 Peacemaker intercontinental bomber, were mounted atop an existing Budd Rail Diesel Car, an RDC-3 of coach and baggage-mail configuration which had received a streamlined front cowling.

The construct was then successfully sent on test runs over the existing tracks between Butler, Indiana, and Stryker, Ohio.

The railroad gathered valuable test data regarding the stresses of high-speed rail travel on conventional equipment and tracks then existing in America.

The data was largely ignored, as NYC was headed for a merger with its arch-rival Pennsylvania Railroad that was already heavily involved in the Metroliner project, funded by the United States Department of Transportation.

[6] Like most similar jet engine blowers, it was effective at clearing snow and ice but also tended to dislodge the ballast.