The “Doodlebug” is shown above at the Sixth Street station; the endearing name is a railroad term for small engines. The Doodlebug made its final run, leaving the Parkersburg Sixth Street station, at ...

The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad’s No. 103 Gas-Electric Motor Car, also known as a ‘Doodlebug,’ is shown above in Helena, Ark., in 1912. Two years later, on Aug. 5, 1914, it was destroyed in a ...