Gas Electrics Today??

PRR 4666, a Brill Model 660, is in-process of restoration at the Black River & Western shops in Ringoes, NJ by its private owner. A fellow club member who works on the BRW has told me much progress has been made on it and it may not be too many more years before she runs again.

I have one of the NJCB Brill 660 doodlebugs, repowered with a Wagner drive. Lettered for PRR 4669, I love it. GHB models imported a Brill Model 250 some years ago. It is also an impressive model. Another club member has one with Magic Carpet drives and she purrs right along.

The Wilmington & Western runs a 1929 doodlebug:

http://www.wwrr.com/about/equi...sel-locomotives.aspx

It hard to find what Gas Electric Diesels are running and what is still around. The information is very vaque... Is the East broad top running their gas electric?

Attached are some pics of the W&Wrr 1929 and the East broad top doodlebug...

IRM has the Union Pacific M35, which has operated occasionally.

UP Gas Electric

Rusty

Is it still running? Very cool doodlebug...

Nice looking car for the U.P. at the Illinois Railroad Museum....never gotten into it...

always closed when I showed up a couple of times.

Delaware & Ulster Scenic at Arkville, NY, used to operate an ex-NYC doodlebug called the "Red Heifer".  Anybody know its' current status?

The EBT car is operable in very good shape the last time I saw it.   At the time, they only brought it out to run on the EBT Fall Reunions.   I saw it run a few trips when I made it to that event.

The EBT has not run this year due to a contract disagreement between the new operator and the owner.   The owner has announced that it will run again and this will be worked out.

Most if not all of the PRR gas-electrics were converted to Diesel after WWII I believe.    The PRR had a collision where the operator running one near Akron OH was thought to have fallen asleep and ran head-on into an I1 (2-10-0) pulling a freight.   I think each was going about 30-35 mph.   The gas tank on the gas-electirc ruptured and the gasoline caught fire.    There were many injuries and I think some fatalities.   After that PRR started converting them to Diesel-Electrics.

Actually it was horrific accident where all the horribly burned to death except for the engineer, fireman and a railroad employee who jumped at the last minute. 

There is still a memorial in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio today.

The engineer did not remember that orders where to take the siding and claimed him and the crew may have been/ had carbon monoxide poisoning.

really a sad day

Rode this car at Strasburg several years ago. We were visiting on one of their special plans and they brough this out for us after the steam was through for the day.

With reference to my original post, it looks like the Strasburg DOES occasionally offer

rides on it....sorry I missed out on that...I have certainly seen that car parked around

their shops a lot.

At Traveltown in Los Angeles, they've been working on ATSF M177 off and on for some time. It's an EMC Baggage/Coach unit. I don't know the status.

That M-177 has an RPO compartment, too, per the above photo.  That is the way I

like RDC's, too, as discussed on another thread....RDC-3's.

I was just at traveltown no to long ago, it is in ok shape, and it looked like they were painting it.  I think they were working on their 0-6-0 up there at the same time.  I can post pictures tomorrow if you guys want me to.

Was just browsing the Strasburgh web site and they have the railcar scheduled to run o.n November 4-6, 12, 1,& 2.

"The restored 1915 Lancaster, Oxford & Southern Railcar was originally used on a three-foot gauge track in Southern Lancaster County. We put her on our tracks for several days in March and November - when we're not running our steam train"

Here's your chance to catch a ride.

Scotie

I rode it several times on Thomas days as well where it was "Toby" for the day.

Bob