Heads UP ATSF Doodlebug fans!!
Since no one else is posting this item I will now pass it along.
(Does anyone have a CURRENT location of this historic car??? )

Trainorders is reporting that the historic ATSF Doodlebug M190 that was parked
at the Sacramento Museum ( CSRM) is being returned to New Mexico at the request of BOTH governors from California and New Mexico.
This move should be routed on the former
ATSF thru Socal via Tehachapi--Barstow--Needles to the big ABQ in New Mexico.
I understand that this museum car was rumored to be in Stockton, California last night (Friday 1-26-06)
Here is a photo of a sister car of this one:
http://www.dallasrailwaymuseum.com/m160.html
---- Daniel

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http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1328648
Date: January 25, 2007 19:03
ATSF Doodlebug M-190
Author: ble692
The Doodlebug is now on the move out of Sacramento. It was picked up last night in Sacramento by UP's Dixon local and moved to Roseville. Currently it is on the LRD96 local going from Sacramento to Stockton where it will be interchanged to the BNSF for the trip to Albuquerque. Cars to trace are KRL 701218 & KRL 701229.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1329489

[quote="daniel3197"]Here is a photo of a sister car of this one:
[url]http://www.dallasrailwaymuseum.com/m160.html[/url][/quote]

I'd say more like cousins than sisters...

I'd say more like second cousins.

I saw it being loaded up inside the Sacramento shop several months ago.

I hear there will likely some other out going loans of equipment for display at other Museums.

If I recall correctly there was a feature on the M190 that appeared in the Winton Engine Company internal newspaper back around the time it was built.

Why do the governors care?

I doubt they do. Although I am sure some of their constituents care.

Chris

Like a number of places the functionaries ask the questions and work out the solutions and then allow their CEO (in this case the governors) sign-off on it -- and take the credit.