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Doodlebug Country by Edmund Keilty rail motorcar on class I railroads w/DustJack
Doodlebug Country by Edmund Keilty
The rail motorcar on class I railroads of the United States
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
184 pages
Copyright 1982 Second printing 1990
CONTENTS
Introduction 7
Alaska Railroad 19
Ann Arbor 21
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 22
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic 29
Baltimore & Ohio 29
Bangor & Aroostook 34
Bessemer & Lake Erie 34
Boston & Maine 35
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh 38
Burlington-Rock Island 39
(Trinity & Brazos Valley)
Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio 41
Central of Georgia 41
Central Railroad of New Jersey 41
Central of Vermont 42
Chesapeake & Ohio 43
Chicago Great Western 47
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (Burlington) 51
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (Rock Island) 57
Colorado & Southern 63
Wichita Valley 63
Fort Worth & Denver City 63
Chicago & North Western 64
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha 66
Chicago & Eastern Illinois 67
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific 67
(Milwaukee Road)
Columbus & Greenville 71
Delaware & Hudson 72
Denver & Rio Grande Western 73
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton 73
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 73
Duluth, Missabe & Northern 74
Duluth & Iron Range 74
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic 74
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific 74
Erie 75
Florida East Coast 79
Georgia & Florida 79
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio 80
Gulf, Mobile & Northern 82
Mobile & Ohio 82
New Orleans-Great Northern 83
Chicago & Alton 83
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio 84
Grand Trunk Western 84
Great Northern 86
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient 91
Illinois Central 92
Lehigh & Hudson River 94
Lehigh & New England 95
Lehigh Valley 95
Long Island Rail Road 99
Louisville & Nashville 101
Louisiana & Arkansas 102
Maine Central 102
Minneapolis & St. Louis 102
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault St. Marie 105
(Soo Line)
Missouri & Arkansas 105
Missouri- Kansas- Texas 106
Missouri Pacific 108
International-Great Northern 113
Houston North Shore113
Houston & Brazos Valley114
Gulf Coast Lines 114
Muskogee Group: Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf 116
Midland Valley 116
Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka 117
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis117
New York Central 118
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis 122
(Big Four Route)
Evansville, Indianapolis & Terre Haute 122
Cincinnati Northern122
New York, New Haven & Hartford 123
New York, Ontario & Western 130
New York, Susquehanna & Western 131
Norfolk Southern 132
Northern Pacific 133
Northwestern Pacific137
Panama Railroad 138
Pennsylvania Railroad139
Pennsylvania-Reading-Seashore Lines145
Pere Marquette 146
Reading Railroad 148
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac 149
St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) 150
St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 154
San Diego & Arizona Eastern 156
Seaboard Air Line 157
Southern Railway160
Southern Pacific 161
Spokane, Portland & Seattle 166
Texas & New Orleans 167
Texas & Pacific 168
Union Pacific 169
Oregon-Washington Ry. & Navigation Co. 176
Oregon Short Line 177
St. Joseph & Grand Island 178
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake178
Wabash 178
Western Pacific 179
Wheeling & Lake Erie180
Index 181
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
DOODLEBUG COUNTRY! As the roaming of the sputtering rail motorcar along the lonely branch line recedes further into our railroading past, the brighter in retrospect is its image in the mind's eye.
Doodlebug Country was any mainline or branch line in the U.S. which supported the train-in-one-car with its few passengers, their baggage, perhaps some mail, express and even LCL freight. Early railroad managements viewed the doodlebug not romantically but simply as a way to save money.
Therefore, the rail motorcar prolonged passenger service for up to several decades on marginal lines which otherwise would have become "freight only." But now it too is gone, along with some of the very tracks it once trod.
In this work, which we proudly offer to you as Interurbans Special 77, author Ed Keilty surveys all of the U.S. Class 1 railroads, tracing their use of self-propelled cars and exhaustively listing the equipment operated. It's all here - from the Alaska RR to Wheeling & Lake Erie, and from American Car & Foundry to Westinghouse-with complete photo coverage.
Author Keilty's first book in this series, Interurbans Without Wires, surveyed all major and most minor U.S. railcar builders, and is now a standard reference in most transportation libraries. This book, we expect, will take its place alongside the first as an authority on its chosen subject.
Through merger and abandonment many of the railroad names appearing in these pages have disappeared, as have nearly all of the doodlebugs. Sad it is that with rare exceptions the towns which were once the ports of call for the doodlebug now must depend solely on the automobile and truck.
The coverage of this volume includes statistics on the Budd RDC car, which will be the subject of a future book in this series. You will also find featured herein some of the very early streamliners of the 1930s, since genetically they sprang to a remarkable degree from the genus Doodlebug.
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