The. Budd Red Lion plant was built as an air craft manufacturing facility with a runway. When the war ended it was immediately converted to rail car manufacturing. The Hunting Park plant was just too cramped for space to continue rail car construction. The rail car test lab, which included the climate lab and the million pound compression tester, stayed at the Hunting Park plant due to the cost of moving it. The test lab out lived the Red Lion plant by many years, but is now gone.

Rail car construction was a small part of the Budd Company. The reason Budd was building a stainless air plane is because stainless steel is what Budd did. After the war Budd built several stainless Studebaker automobiles, but they could not get the paint to stick, so Studebaker did not pursue the idea.

The Budd Hunting Park plant is still a major manufacture of stampings and stamping dies for the automobile industry.