"Doodlebug" is the name applied to the hundreds of self-propelled gasoline-electric cars built by and for the railroads in the early part of the 20th Century. The few that remain are mainly in museums or are privately-owned, but you can find a couple former Pennsy cars on shortline excursion roads in the East.

Ex-PRR #4666 is shown in the middle of a rehabilitation at the Black River & Western shops in Ringoes, N.J. This car operated into the late 1940s and early 1950s on PRR branch lines in the Garden State. A sister car is on the roster of the Wilmington & Western, which operates excursion service along a former B&O branch in Delaware.

Photographed by Thomas McCann, October 12, 2002.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, December 8, 2006.
Railroad: Black River and Western Railroad Company.

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