He is. Remember, they were built for the Rocky Mountain Rocket. You don't do a Chicago-Colorado Springs round trip in a day without leaving the ground, even if you're the Burlington. Something had to be ready to go the next morning. They are kind of funny units. Designed to haul a connecting train (Limon-Colorado Springs) all the way from Chicago, and fitted with the most brick-like of blunt noses to make them more streamlined (between Chicago and Limon), they definitely answered a question that many people would never have asked.
To me a 'doodle bug' was a stripped down auto or truck to get around on the farm. There were a lot of them were I grew up on a farm. https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...a35bf94a735dc8a5b7a309a16f8a1231&action=click Never heard of them with trains. Hear the steamer in the back ground.
......right.................thank you...........I am aware that some of those Grange Roads had some funny equipment, but, as I do not model them, I never can remember which one had what. I am aware that no B&O E-unit came like that. All of them were fully powered and were strictly locomotives. I long past sold all of my B&O E-units, as they really did not fit my pike. My B&O passenger trains are mostly under steam, but a torpedo boat GP-9 or passenger F-3 does make an occasional appearance. Those are more suited to the kind of passenger trains that I run for my era than would be the E-units. I did mean rectangular windows, but I had forgotten, as I do not have my B&O E-units any more. In fact, I sold ALL of my E-units, as they just did not fit the passenger trains on my pike in my era. The railroads considered them locomotives. As a rule, they were ordered for a specific train. Southern and a couple of midwestern roads had something similar to what is in your photograph. Many were powered by FM, although St. Louis Car Company, Budd or someone else might have constructed the car bodies, I forget, now. One or perhaps both of the Piedmont Roads had some like that one for their Florida trains. The southbounds from Washington/NewYork split somewhere in Florida (Jacksonville?). The main train usually continued to Miami, but a couple of cars were switched out and put behind these things and run to other cities in Florida. Usually, it was a baggage or sleeper or something similar, as the train would sit in the station behind one of these things with a coach and perhaps a baggage car already coupled to it. The train from Washington showed up, the cars were switched out and put onto the other train(s). Usually, the Miami train left first, followed by the other one(s). Some of those were streamlined, some were not. It has been some time since I read about those trains, so I do not remember the details, any more.
