Chicago Burlington & Quincy (CBQ) 9769 - EMD Motorcar

Scanned with an Epson V550 from a duplicate Ektachrome 35mm slide. Date, location, and photographer are unknown.

RE-UPLOAD due to missing file. Scanned with an Epson V550 from a duplicate Kodachrome 35mm slide. Photographer is unknown.

Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad class PMC (Passenger Motor Car) 9769 at Hastings, Nebraska on July 13, 1960, Kodachrome by Dick Rumbolz, Chuck Zeiler collection.

Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad PMC (Passenger Motor Car) 9769 at Hastings, Nebraska on July 13, 1960, Kodachrome by Dick Rumbolz, Chuck Zeiler collection. Number 9769 was completed in October 1930, body built by Pullman-Standard, equipped with a six cylinder 400 horsepower gasoline engine built by Electro-Motive Corporation ( serial number 460 ), and the electrical equipment was supplied by Westinghouse. It had controls at both ends and a 15 foot mail apartment. Although it contained no passenger accommodations, it was capable of pulling five or six cars. It was re-powered with a diesel engine at an unknown date. In its final years on the CB&Q it was assigned to yard engine duty. In February 1966 it was sold to Southern Industrial Railroad, Centerville, Iowa.

For description and front end shot of the car see http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=557698

Demoted to a yard switcher in Clinton, Iowa, EMD-Pullman built CB&Q Doodlebug 9769 rests in the sun on New Years Day 1966. The opposite end is also painted red and yellow for reverse running, see: http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=762736 The CB&Q Doodlebug roster is at http://www.burlingtonroute.com/docs/rosters/motorcars.html