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]<https://exchange.andrews.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>> Reply-To: S-Scale <[email protected]<https://exchange.andrews.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:59:19 -0600 To: S-Scale <[email protected]<https://exchange.andrews.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>> 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]<https://exchange.andrews.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> 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]<https://exchange.andrews.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>
