The V&T used a McKeen motor car in video below. Watch a YouTube video detailing the history of this car
John Claudino AZTEC MANUFACTURING CO. On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:30 AM, Thomas Baker wrote: > > Yes, the big roads did use doodlebugs. The following roads were big users of > car bodies built by St. Louis Car Company with the relatively flat front, > although that front was not toally flat: C&NW, UP, ATSF, Cotton Belt, MKT, > M&StL, RI, CGW, NP, NYC, ERIE, DL&W, quite a collection of roads. The beauty > of producing a mail-baggage unit is that modelers can attach, as did the real > roads, one heavyweight coach as a trailer. Yeah, and interestingly--I'm not > sure how widespread this was--but the CGW and the M&StL towed both coaches > and Pullmans behind their doodlebugs. Then there's that really neat C&NW > [technically CMO operation] doodlebug train that rain between > Minnneapolis/St. Paul and Ashland, Wisconsin, called the "Namekogan" painted > in yellow red and silver before the advent of the streamlined "400". The > B&M, GN in a few cases, C&O, SP, were users of the Brill doodlebugs. > > > Tom > > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Roy > Inman [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:20 AM > To: S-Scale > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Doodlebug Model > > > > Around these parts the Santa Fe and Union Pacific used doodlebugs to shuttle > smaller numbers of passengers between small/medium sized towns, trips that > did not justify using large locomotives. Doodlebugs often made connections > with street cars that ran on the same gauge tracks. Couple photos of the ATSF > version on Andy’s Photostream > www.flickr.com/photos/8348059@NO2/6078087107/in/photostream. Basically a > motorcar. > > Roy > > > From: Talmadge C 'TC' Carr <[email protected]> > Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:59:19 -0600 > To: S-Scale <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Doodlebug Model > > > > > > > No, The cars (RPO/Bag w/ coach trailer) were made by St. Louis Car Company > with FM Engines. > TCC:} > > On Feb 12, 2012, at 10:48 PM, [email protected] wrote: > How about the Southern Railway's cars, manufactured by Fairbanks-Morse as I > recall. > > Fred T in Tennessee > > > > Talmadge C 'TC' Carr > Sn42 and Hn42 somewhere in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > >
