synonymouse Wrote:
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> Sorry about the error. I do remember seeing a
> taken from above of a lone NWP Budd RDC in a
> scenic canyon on the way to Eureka in a Trains
> magazine pictorial on the West in the late
> fifties. I'd say about '57-'58.
>
> And then a few years ago, a lot later to be sure,
> I picked up a video at the library on rails in the
> Northbay and the various iterations of the NWP and
> inded I there was a photo of a Budd RDC with a
> well battered front end. I guess that was the
> "one". I assumed they had more and that it had to
> come out of a place with some people, ergo Santa
> Rosa. I guess I was giving more credit to the SP
> than it was due.

That one RDC was purchased as ordered by Cal PUC when it granted permission too discontinue the rest of the train.