Heads UP ATSF Doodlebug fans!! Since no one else is posting this item I will now pass it along. (Does anyone have a CURRENT location of this historic car??? ) Trainorders is reporting that the historic ATSF Doodlebug M190 that was parked at the Sacramento Museum ( CSRM) is being returned to New Mexico at the request of BOTH governors from California and New Mexico. This move should be routed on the former ATSF thru Socal via Tehachapi--Barstow--Needles to the big ABQ in New Mexico. I understand that this museum car was rumored to be in Stockton, California last night (Friday 1-26-06) Here is a photo of a sister car of this one: http://www.dallasrailwaymuseum.com/m160.html ---- Daniel ==================================== http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1328648 Date: January 25, 2007 19:03 ATSF Doodlebug M-190 Author: ble692 The Doodlebug is now on the move out of Sacramento. It was picked up last night in Sacramento by UP's Dixon local and moved to Roseville. Currently it is on the LRD96 local going from Sacramento to Stockton where it will be interchanged to the BNSF for the trip to Albuquerque. Cars to trace are KRL 701218 & KRL 701229. http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1329489
If you learn what brought these governors to act, I'd be curious to know their motivation. Boxcab E50
What appears to be the last word on TrainOrders.com. She was in Barstow 1-30-07. Just guessing...but she should be well on here way to Belen, NM by now. As someone else on the other website disclosed. I'm ashamed of the treatment she recieved here in the state of CA. Our present governor appears to have little interest in any of the museums "A money pit" I believe was the quotation. There is a number of Santa Fe artifacts still in the old SP shop and some sitting out under the weather....doing what metal does when it isn't cared for. It's to bad other museums can't pick up these pieces and restore them back to...useful life...or at least show pieces. Our railroads built what is todays modern world. We could at least respectfully acknowledge it by preserving some of it's heritage before it rusts away. Even the grants available to museums has fallen off the wayside what with budget cuts and etc. To bad too!
