Lionel's New O Gauge Doodlebug RailCar is a Home Run! Chapter List: 0:00 - Intro 1:21 - History 2:56 - Model Stats & Facts 6:06 - BFIMO 6:37 - Startup & Demo 7:32 - Running Session 10:40 - Wrap Up 12:03 - End Credits
Great Doodle bug review! That horn that the engine comes with is one of the best sounding horns since the Lionel GP-9s from 1999! I’m sold on this engine now
It's worth noting that main reason for gasoline Doodlebugs being converted to diesel was due to a horrific head-on collision in 1940, where a PRR gasoline car collided with a freight train and burst into flames, killing all 46 passengers onboard.
This is one of those incidents that, alongside the sinking of the _Edmund Fitzgerald,_ is one of those tragedies you don't grow up in Northeast Ohio without hearing about. There's a little plaque commemorating the disaster at the corner of Front St. and Bailey Rd. in Cuyahoga Falls, just a few yards away from where the accident happened. The line itself is something of a local landmark in spite of having been abandoned for decades by this point, and every now and then someone will want to reactivate it only to be shut down by NIMBYs either up in Hudson or in the retiree community on Springdale Rd.
Interesting, I had assumed it was purely to keep them up to date. Gasoline-fired motive power had an extremely short lifespan in American railroading just because it struggled to out-pull contemporary steam engines and the diesel locomotive took off very soon after gasoline was introduced.
Man. I have been watching you since I was 10 years old, I’m 21 now. Thank you for keeping my love of model trains alive, although I don’t model o scale I do love to look at it and all throughout childhood I just watched and watched your reviews. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, happy new year!
BFIMO, is the sound. This has a great sound of a gasoline driven engine. Different from anything else. ❤👍🏻 I’m abit disappointed Lionel didn’t make its real life counterpart C&O Doodlebug.
The Duddlebugs were an interesting SPV, kind of the first of its type. That's really cute.. RDCs came out of this idea back then and I love RDCs. Can't wait to see another episode of you installing your figures when you get them.. Enjoy!
I recently picked up an mth Santa Fe doodlebug in conventional mode. It lacks the “bells and whistles “ of the Lionel but it has a dual engine and quite a bit of pulling power. I and currently using it as the engine for a set of 5 mth premier heavyweight passenger cars. May not be prototype but looks really good on the track
I love the shots of different areas & rooms of your layout. Please continue that in your videos. It’s so nice to see different angles besides just seeing the main room. I’m sure it’s more work for you, but it’s really appreciated!
Similar to the speeders and rail bonders, these are great little units to just have something running down a track without spending a lot of time putting together a full train for them. It's almost like a really big trolley.
OLD Leather Smith here, Great. Since I watched you build this layout from the beginning I am really enjoying watching all you have built. GOD'S BLESSINGS ✝️⚾🙃
There are three Santa Fe doodlebugs left. You mentioned M-177, but there are two others. There’s M-160 which is in Frisco, TX at the Museum of the American Railroad, and the other is M-190 at Belen, NM.
Great comments. Lionel seems determined to price itself out of the market. Around $80. for a simple boxcar? I designed an animated feature a few years ago. My team and I did the original sketches for the characters and the settings, then sent them to China to be animated. The animators in China were being paid $1.00/a day with a $1.00 bump for Lunch. Even I can do the math.
This model resembles the M-160 at the Museum of the American Railroad. It's also in warbonnet paint scheme and the same number, M-160. The prototype version most likely inspired the Lionel model version.
Really great unit. These seem similar to a method of travel on the California Western and Rio Grande railbus units from the days that Galloping Goose units rode on the tracks. Although, the horn sounds almost like the one from a diesel on a miniature railroad that I rode behind, years ago
Hi Eric I love your model railway layout. I live in New Zealand and I have 7 model railway layouts at my house I have 6 HO Scale railway layouts and one N Scale railway layout all so I am a member to a model railway club in New Zealand.
My Grandmother and Aunt rode doodlebugs on the now long gone B&O line that went through the Moonville tunnel between McArthur & Zalaski in the Southeastern part of Ohio.
I think the BR&W has a Doole Bug still in up in the RINGOS NJ. Yard. I'm not certain if the BR&W has in service. I bet it's been 30 years since I have seen it operating on Lambertville line to Flemington NJ.
Probably the worst railway accident in US history involved a PRR doodlebug. It was heading north on a single track stretch of track when the engineer was overcome with noxious gasoline vapors and missed a red signal at about 50mph. A PRR loaded coal train with two monster class I1s 2-10-0 behemoths crashed head on. Those people never stood a chance. The doodlebug instantly blew up in flames. The engineer managed to bail before impact having been seriously injured. They found several people literally fused to their seats having been instantly incinerated. The coal train however not surprisingly didn't even have a scratch on it.
No cab on the rear is what kills it for me. Normally they at least had a porthole on the back where a conductor would sit to act as a look out when running in reverse
I like it. It's different, it's cool, looks like the price seems to be fair enough. And when you started up it definitely sounds like it has a gasoline engine in it that's what I like about it. So what kind of turns can I go on
Australia had doodlebugs they were called Diesel Electric Rail Motors (DERM) they were based of a standard design just modified for Australia all exept one were preserved
Would these doodlebugs run, using a conventional transformer? And would you be able to use the horn/bell/crewtalk features, using a conventional transformer? 🚂
