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My earliest recollections of the LV begin around 1943 or 44. At that time they had a "doodle bug", very light construction. Brill? It is said to have had a mechanical transmission and maybe even a gear shift. There was also a matching trailer. That, except for special occasions, was the "passenger train". Special occasions were: Latrobe School Picnic at Idlewild, ALCo plant picnic, and maybe a couple other similar events. On those days, the LV would borrow 2 or 3 mP54 coaches from the PRR and run a "real" passenger train, consisting of those cars plus their own bright red mP54 pulled by one of their locomotives. Later, somewhere around 1946 or 47, I observed the doodlebug pulling a gondola loaded with ties. Then, if I remember correctly, the dodlebug was replaced by a locomotive pulling the single coach. Rumor had it that the effort of moving the gondola had burned out the clutch on the doodlebug. A few weeks later, a bigger, diesel-powered "doodlebug" showed up and was used as noted above until the end in 1952. In the mid-40's, not long after then end of WW2 LV obtained an ex-Army 0-6-0 switcher, and later and ex-Southern 2-8-0. By then, the 2-8-0's they had up until then had given up the ghost. Bob Netzlof
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