Keith, I think that IMG_4409 is coach baggage caboose combine SLSF 844 Not a motorcar but a strange bird in its own right. http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/car-844.8913/#post-61611 Excellent compilation of photos. I have a Spectrum bull moose in ATSF warbonnet colors that awaits kitbashing someday.
Right you are Chris, what I forgot to include is the text explaining that #844 ofttimes accompanied a motorcar.
That is good news Keith. I think the only time I have seen this one in action was when it was behind an RS-1 at Poplar Bluff. I have been thinking that this car as a "trailer" behind a kitbashed Bull Moose will look mighty nice. Best Regards,
Hiya, Mike - good to see you! I don't think I have ever read of any, but now I am curious and am going to have to start digging through out FEMs. I think the old museum newsletter also had a "Doodlebugging on the Frisco". It is probably time for me to review that material again, too. Will be interested to see if others have information to add. Best regards,
There was an entire series of Doodlebugs in All Aboard starting in 1988 through 1992. Close to 20 articles. There could have been others that I missed.
Yes. I will have to explore further, but after the arrival of many of the motor cars during the early "teens", a Bull Moose operated as trains No 7 and No 8 between Sherman and Dallas / Ft. Worth. Number 7 left Sherman (daily) at 6:30 AM and arrived at Dallas 9:45 AM and Ft. Worth at 10:15 AM. Number 8 departed Ft. Worth at 7:00 PM and departed Dallas at 7:15 PM. It arrived at Sherman at 10:30 PM.
Thanks Chris, Bob and Karl. Duh, I should have checked the All Aboard issues. I remember one edition that had doodlebugs on the cover. I am working on operations on the Texas Western and wanted to add a little diversity to passenger equipment. Your comments help. Thanks again, Mike C
Good find Karl. Now I'm wondering if said service in the teens lasted beyond? Neither here nor there, but I'm also wondering if that was one of the lowest-numbered Bull Moose trains on the Frisco? Something to look up as the weather starts to encourage more indoor activity.
This info is from the Reynolds County Museum & Library and from their historian. The .pdf link below shows railroading pictures in and around Reynolds County and some in Ellington. One of the pictures is of the light duty Bull Moose motor car that Missouri Southern gave or sold to the consolidated school district when the railroad went out of business. file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/EllingtonSchooRailBus%20(3)%20(1)%20(6).pdf The motor car and remaining tracks in Reynolds county became the 1st school bus. George Mullikin was the engineer. Well not exactly. Prior was a horse or mule pulled wagon with rows of benches. Open on the sides and a roof was likely canvas. Any how, while numerous railroads called their motor cars as a Bull Moose, because of the tone of the horn. The kids did not know that and thought that one of them started to use that name. Reynolds County Museum & Library historian still thinks that one of his first pals started that name. Anyhow, the moose tone made fun for the kids every day. It made some kids to wish to go to school. Working on dad's farm was 1st priority for many. But things were not that well, since the school district had a tuition fee. Land owners did not wish anymore taxes. The poorer kids often did not get any schooling unless from their moms. That was also conflicted because many females died giving childbirth. "Thank the Lord" that it was better for you that came later ! "Amen" ! file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/EllingtonSchooRailBus%20(3)%20(1)%20(6).pdf
Former Missouri Southern Bull Moose became Reynolds County MO School Rail-Bus after MS railroad went of of business. Photographs came from Ellington's Reynold County Museum & Library. The historian as a kid used this to go to school. The date of Monday, Jan 6, 1997 was the Post Dispatch St. Louis, file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/EllingtonSchooRailBus%20(3)%20(1)%20(6).pdf Entire document provided from the Reynold County Museum & Library has other pictures of Missouri Southern RR, views of Ellington, other towns where the railroad row was right through the middle of the street and Shay locomotive at Bunker, MO with a logging train. Passenger rolling stock looked light duty.
