Actually, #3184 is in a very good, basic cosmetic shape, but it could use a bit of touch up here and there. The car itself has only been moved around here and there around Coney Island Yard and never outside onto to the Transit System's tracks, just like R-9 #1802 (which R.P.C. also owns).
My guess is that R.P.C. just seems also to be having general problems in getting much of their own fleet (including even their own other AMUE R-1/9's and SMEE R-16's) in some sort of sizable and worthy shape to be on the road for whatever reason. However, their owned Lo-V's had been operated before even on the 42nd Street Shuttle during the 90th anniversary without a hitch.
Yet, look at how MTA NYC Transit seems to have its own R-1/4/7A unit train, including the reborn #401, now up and running with no problems at all today. It you makes one wonders that a private outfit like R.P.C. must feel a bit red-faced and unpleasantly uncomfortable that most of their own fleet of cars could have never be used now as a consideration for the M.O.D. excursions or any other fantrips they were hoping to be on.
-William A. Padron
["Fulton-Lefferts Blvd."]