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[cacole]

As near as I can recall, the doodlebug that ran on the Missouri Pacific was built by the Saint Louis Car Shops and was unique to the MOP. Sometimes it would be pulling a heavyweight passenger car, but usually ran alone. I remember that it was gasoline powered, and had a baggage/RPO section between the cab and passenger compartment. The front and cab were painted red, with tiger stripes on the nose, and the rest of it was black. It was taken out of service in the mid-1950's.

Our house was less than 100 feet across a back yard from the double-track Illinois Central line that ran between DuQuoin, Illinois, and Saint Louis, Missouri., and the MOP had a small depot and crossed the IC tracks on the other side of the city cemetery from our house, so both lines were clearly visible.

Both the IC and MOP had roundhouse facilities in Pinckneyville during the glory days of steam. Sometimes the IC City of New Orleans, pulled by diesels, would be detoured through Pinckneyville because of flooding or a derailment. That was always a major attraction, because all of the other IC passenger trains were steam.

Throughout World War II, troop trains would pass through on an almost daily basis heading toward Saint Louis. In those days, troop trains had priority, and we could always tell when one was coming through because all of the freight trains would be pulled off onto sidings.

[Anonymous]

In case you didn't know ther is an IC Historical Society. You can get the address from MR.

[icmr]

Thats some great info cacole. Thanks for posting it.



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[icmr]

[#welcome] to the forum ldunn85866. I for one am fully aware of the IC historical society. The address is www.icrrhistorical.org



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[icmr]

I finally got my Athearn BB ICG GP38 running and it is great.



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[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cacole

As near as I can recall, the doodlebug that ran on the Missouri Pacific was........

I appreciate you answering my request about the doodlebug. Thanks!

BTW, since this an IC thread, I also have a few models of the IC. My first ride in a sleeping car was on the IC's Hawkeye from Sioux City, IA to Chicago (I got on in Fort Dodge). This was in the late 60's.

[ICRR1964]

There is a small museum in a town about 25 miles from me, it is called Paxton it is located in Ford county Illinois. I'll see if they still got a web site! Had a nice ICRR diplay set up about a year ago!

[icmr]

I hope they do. Thanks for tell us.



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[icmr]

Very cool KG1960. That must have been great.



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[ac4400fan]

Hi guys i was going threw some old photos and ran across this ,this is 1 of the locos i got for my dad for fathers day last year and the cars on the left in the back ,ill post a better one of them later, He is comming over thanksgiving and want to run his loco lol



Carl..

[icmr]

I like the engine and cars ac4400fan. Its great to see the diamond logo in HO.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and thanks for your replies.



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[icmr]

Bump. Im trying to keep this on the front page guys.



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[cacole]

Well, I was wrong, as usual. The MOP has a historical society web site with two photos of their doodlebug. The front didn't have tiger stripes, it was a large radiator grill that filled the entire area between the windshields.

But no one has ever made a model of this doodlebug, or one that even looks close, because it was unique to the MOP.

This is the link to the best of the two photos:

http://www.mopac.org/photos_misc/mp_450.jpg

BTW, I received the replacement SD70 trucks from Athearn on Tuesday and installed them Wednesday. Athearn sent exactly what I needed -- one with black sideframes for the IC model, and one in silver for the BNSF warbonnet, so all 4 of my Genesis models are now back on the track.

[Anonymous]

That's good news about your Genesis SD70s, cacole. I need to get replacement trucks and ditch lights for my UP SD70M. Do I order them through athearn?

[cacole]

4884bigboy,

Go to Athearn's web site at http://www.athearn.com

Click on "Contact Us" in the upper right-hand portion of the first page, and an e-mail form will be part of the next page to pop up. Fill in the data to identify the parts you need by model type (Genesis SD70) and road name; indicate that you need part numbers and prices, and check the box indicating that you want a reply. Then you can order directly from them based on the parts numbers and prices they give you.

[icmr]

Im glad you got your trucks cacole. Im need to send my trucks off.



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[icmr]

Hello all. I forgot to tell you that I saw EMDX74 which is a SD70M-2 Demo unit for NS. It was sitting on a grain siding at Wayne City, IL. It was a great site. My friend got some pics of it. His site is http://ztrainman.tripod.com/ The pic is in the "Other Railroads" section. I did not see any IC units friday. I guess cn doesnt want to run that much.



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[icmr]

Hello all. Im starting a new Illinois Central website. The address is http://icmrr.tripod.com I also have a link to a forum I started on there.



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[Anonymous]

here's an illinos central train tape: http://www.traintapes.com/ click train tapes
they have video's for most current class 1 railroads. there are a lot of BNSF ones i want.

[icmr]

Thanks dingoix. I will go there now. Nice SF picture.



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[Anonymous]

i'm glad someone likes that SF picture

[icmr]

My friend has a model of a SD45 in that scheme but I cant remember if it is SF or SP.

I have an Illinois Central photo I intend to post on here sometime when I get it ready.



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[Anonymous]

there are a bunch of Athearn SF "kodachrome" sd45-2's on ebay-- that paint came about when santa fe proposed to merge w/ southern pacific -SPSF southern pacific santa fe
the merge was rejected but yet SPSF painted some loco's --
some think SPSF stands for Shouldn't Paint So Fast

[ac4400fan]

Heres a pic i ran across the other day,This one i took a while ago its my old athearn loco



Carl..

[Anonymous]

carl , that athearn IC loco has the same paint scheme as my atlas U33C which was my main loco til' a gear in the rear truck went out- now i have to get that fixed. my most favorite IC paint is the scheme icmr has in his sig pic which was unveiled by IC in 1987

[Anonymous]

icmr -great illinos central website i had no idea there were so many IC loco's left

[icmr]

Thx dingoix. I dont know just how many are really left but that was the roster from my other site and I cant find a "straight" IC roster without it having CN on it. I like the IC engine ac4400fan. Im still working on my site. I put some pics on there last night. I also have a link to two forums on there, on is the one I started and one that trainboyH16-44 started. I agree, SPSF does = Shouldnt Paint So Fast.



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[icmr]

My Tech2 power pack is still working after my Tech4 260 died. It has had one problem yet. cacole I have a question, What did you put your trucks in when you sent them to Athearn?



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[Anonymous]

SPSF shouldn't paint so fast- why wold a propsed merger railroad paint loco's in a new scheme before the merge was even approved? i'll never understand that

[icmr]

Beats me. IC didnt do that did they?



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