Short Line Doodlebug By Edmund Keilty Galloping Geese and other Railcritters DJ

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Short Line Doodlebug By Edmund Keilty Galloping Geese and other Railcritters DJ
The Short Line Doodlebug By Edmund Keilty Galloping Geese and other Railcritters
Hard Cover w dust jacket   REFLECTIONS from lights on some photo
Interurbans Special #99
Copyright 1988
152 pages indexed
Contents
7 Introduction
11 Alabama
14 Alaska
16 Arizona
18 Arkansas
21 California
30 Colorado
35 Connecticut
35 Delaware
36 Florida
39 Georgia
44 Hawaii
46 Idaho
48 Illinois
52 Indiana
54 Iowa
56 Kansas
58 Kentucky
61 Louisiana
64 Maine
66 Maryland
69 Massachusetts
72 Michigan
73 Minnesota
78 Mississippi
80 Missouri
83 Montana
84 Nebraska
85 Nevada
89 New Hampshire
90 New Jersey
93 New Mexico
94 New York
98 North Carolina
103 North Dakota-South Dakota
105 Ohio
107 Oklahoma
109 Oregon
114 Pennsylvania
120 Rhode Island
121 South Carolina
122 Tennessee
124 Texas
131 Utah
133 Vermont
135 Virginia
137 Washington
142 West Virginia 144 Wisconsin
147 Wyoming
148 Index
THIS IS THE THIRD and in some respects the most interesting of the Edmund Keilty Doodlebug Trilogy. The first book, Interurbans Without Wires (Special 66), dealt with the builders of the rail motorcar in the U.S., such as Brill, St. Louis Car, Pullman-Standard and Mack. The second book, Doodlebug Country (Special 77), profiled the operation of these cars on the mainline (class 1) railroads, ranging from the mighty Pennsylvania RR down to the Frisco and the Katy.
Now we are going to stalk the self-propelled cars that roamed the rickety rails of rural America on the short lines: those small, independently owned pikes connecting the county seat with the mainline junction.
Seldom did you find the big Electro-Motive or giant Brill cars on these lines. The short lines couldn't afford anything that fancy. So they often came up with home-built contraptions looking more like jitney buses on rails than honest-to-gosh railroad passenger equipment.
One road found a discarded four-wheeled Birney streetcar, and motorized it. Many short lines wedded a truck chassis to a passenger cabin. Sometimes they employed automobile touring cars with flanged wheels, similar in size to the track inspection cars that some big railroads had. The South, especially, offered a bewildering variety of railcars in all sizes, shapes and colors-almost all of them looking a bit worse for wear.
Sometimes the short line railroads managed to keep their diminutive doodlebugs at work longer than the big roads did with their powerful rail motorcars, perhaps because paved roads did not penetrate the backwaters served by these rails until later.
But in most cases the short line doodlebug died out early, because the passengers preferred automobiles and buses. It is time, therefore, to bring them back in print, and this we do gladly in the hope that you will find them as enjoyable as their bigger brethren, which were the stars of the previous two books.
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