Caption: Another view of the Edmonton-bound CN "Railiner" from Calgary, handled by RDC-3 6356, sitting at the station at Camrose awaiting arrival of the Drumheller RDC. It will soon move to a siding south of the station, allowing CN RDC-1 6114 arriving from Drumheller to make its station stop. 6356 will then pull in behind 6114, and the crews will couple both units together for the combined final run from Camrose to Edmonton.

CN RDC-3 6356 was originally built for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas as 20, their only RDC. It featured optional end and vestibule door fluting, an option a few railroads opted for (PGE being another). MKT 20 was later renumbered 162, and sold to the Chesapeake & Ohio in June 1962 as their 9082. A few years later, C&O sold the car to CN in August 1965, where it became their D-356 before being renumbered by CN to 6356 in 1969. When initially acquired by CN, the car still retaining fluting at both ends, but by 1971 it had lost its A-end fluting after an accident or other incident (the B-end fluting, still intact, is shown here).

It became VIA 6356 in 1978, and eventually rebuilt with a smaller baggage area (likely by CN at Pointe St. Charles shops) as VIA RDC-2m 6221 in March 1983. Sometime during its career as 6221, the B-end fluting was removed (but its door vestibule fluting was still retained). Some sources show it as retired in 1990 and stored until being sold to Industrial Rail Services (IRSI) in 2000, one of a large group of RDC cars IRSI acquired in hopes for rebuilding/refurbishing them for possible buyers. It was not rebuilt, and due to IRSI's financial difficulties in the mid-2010's, it was scrapped sometime in 2015-2016 along with most of IRSI's RDC inventory.

Original photographer unknown (possibly E.W.Johnson), Dan Dell'Unto collection slide.

Initial view of CN 6356 at Camrose: http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=54598