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All this discussion re: RDCs has given me the urge to buy more motive power I don.t need but now want. The Proto 1000 units are extremely well done like all Proto 1000 and 2000 offerings. Remember how awful Life Like (and Bachmann before Spectrum) used to be, with but a few exceptions? I still have a couple of Athearn RDCs which were actually quite a bit shorter than prototype; the Proto 1000 units are correct length. The Athearn RDCs always 'relied'?!? on the old rubber band drive train - a holdover from the Globe products (pre-Athearn blue box days) Come to think about it, the rubber band drive probably replicated the prototype's unreliable and somewhat jerky operation! I've converted mine to the Earnst (sp?) gear drive conversion but really can't say that I ever got them sorted out. Having been on New Haven RDC's as a kid in Conn., I've always had a fondness for them but had been frustrated by the lack of a decent model until recently. Where can I get a roster of which roads bought RDCs new and when were the first units delivered? Were any 'demo' paint scheme(s) used by EMD like they did on their diesels when 'loaned' to prospective purchasers? I am modeling the L&N and am unaware that they owned any, but it could be rationalized that they tried out a demo unit or three. . .Did the NC&StL-owned by the L&N have any?
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