Did the Buffalo Creek and Gauley's Brill-Mack Doodlebug survive? For some reason I thought it did, but did not know where. I do know for a fact that it survived until at least 1959. Any help would be appreciated.

wilkidm@wku.edu

> Did the Buffalo Creek and Gauley's
> Brill-Mack Doodlebug survive? For some
> reason I thought it did, but did not know
> where. I do know for a fact that it survived
> until at least 1959. Any help would be
> appreciated.
David,

If I remember right, the Brill-Mack Bus, which was used by the Artemus-Jellico RR and sold to the B.C. & G. is at Strasburg RR now. There's a picture of it on the AJ in "Ghost Railroads of Kentucky"

Stuart

If anyone has another picture of it, I'd like to see it.

Thanks!!

Mid-South Rail Heritage Foundation
gnufe@apex.net

Further info on the Mack/Brill:

It was originally owned by the Lewisburg, Milton & Watsontown, Passenger Railway, a pseudo-interurban service in Pennsylvania which operated between Lewisburg and Mifflinburg (never got to the other places) on the PRR, now the West Shore excursion RR (moribund as I type). The car, #20, was built by Brill in 1922 with Mack drive. It went from there to the BC&G rather quickly, and from there it was rescued by a group of rail enthusiasts in the Lewisburg/Milton area around 1963-64. For reasons never made clear to me (probably a combination of financial and in-fighting), it was sold to Strasburg by that group, around perhaps 1968.

In a sense, it's too bad. A remnant of that original group went on to found the Central Pa. Chapter NRHS, and ever since they acquired the Reading station at White Deer and 1.6 miles of track, the car should have returned to its home turf--not a more perfect piece of rolling stock for such a small operation exists! I am told, however, that Strasburg has refused all serious (and non-serious) offers for the car's preservation elsewhere (including across the street), and the prognosis is too poor for its sale to even consider a fund drive. Meanwhile, the car continues to literally rot outside (at last check). Not quite the same tragedy as, say, the continued deterioration of the EBT in private hands, but similar.

Okay, off the soapbox for now......

lner4472@bcpl.net

What about the smaller gas car of the BC&G, built by Four Wheel Drive? I've heard it is in private hands somewhere, but where is it?



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