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Bear with me on this one. I recall so many years ago having a metal RDC that came either from Athearn or Globe. It had nice gear driven trucks and the body matched that of the Athearn except in metal. Does anybody recall these RDC's? I had thought that the metal units would have survived through the Athearn lineup of later years but like the metal freight cars when Athearn went to plastic the old lines were either sold off or discontinued. While in high school I worked for Pacific HO which was in San Dimas, California. They had a ton of old Athearn HO metal parts that were obtained from Irv Athearn, enough to probably make up several thousand box cars and reefers. The Athearn metal O scale line was purchased by George Menzies who continued to offer the kits, but only in O. I'm pretty sure it was during this time I saw the RDC's in metal. George kept a shop a few doors down from Pacific HO, which was next door to Silver Streak, also headquartered in San Dimas. So, anybody with the gear driven Athearn RDC's???
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