RDG Russian Decapods

I know the RDG had Russian Decapods, and from what I can piece together they had ~4; much beyond that, I've only ever seen one, small, grainy photograph of these beasts. Anyone have any idea when they got them, why, and where on the system they were employed?

Class J1-sa, road numbers 1126-29, scrapped 1935. The only pictures I have seen of these were in the Reading Steam and Power Pictorals by Bert Pennypacker. The shots show an out of service Decapod stored at Bridgeport, Pa. They might have been used out of Bridgeport/Abrams, but I have no info on this.

the outer station project ,when they printed the reading railroad magazine,did a great issue on those a few months back.

Much obliged, folks!

A new thread about the russian decs recently started on the Reading Modeler.
http://www.readingmodeler.com/modules.p ... opic&t=757

One of my Russian decapods. USA 1179, alloted to the CNJ, by the USRA, for war time use.

http://image87.webshots.com/187/6/73/56 ... RgM_fs.jpg

Something went wrong with webshots. They wont show my photo. Your removing of my ability to edit makes me unable to replace the photo. So I guess the people here dont get to see the photo. Sorry everybody.
frank

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A 1915 article on the ordering of the decapods for Russia.
http://books.google.com/books?id=jAVCAQ ... ve&f=false

Thanks for your input, folks, this has helped to clear up a mystery that has been with me since childhood!