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attn: bill mathewson, glad it helped. the comment on the brochure was a joke---on the string ndbprr says he has one and tried to sell copies but no interest. How do I post a jpg photo on this thing and you can see what the car looked like?? You guys are making me get out my books! Eddystone--in looking in my copy of "Rock Island Rockets", it looks like RDC3s 9015 & 9016 (at least) got through steam piping installed later in life. From1956-1962, these cars ran in the consist of trains 509/510 (and successor no's) Kansas City Rocket, with a single RDC3 sandwiched between the head end cars and the coaches, in revenue service as coach space between KCY and Enid OK, where it was cut out and ran solo the rest of the way to FTW. This was one of the most bizarre train consists ever conceived (stick the Missouri in there -- that's the infamous stainless steel boat tail baggage car -- ahead of the RDC and it would probably qualify hands-down as the most bizarre). It is at least plausible, if not almost a certainty, that the Rock installed the through steam pipes to handle heating the rest of the train. Rock experts-any data? Is this correct or not? I'm looking at pix and see steam pipes.
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