Doodlebug disaster

[[File:PRR-I1s-OWI.jpg|thumb|220x220px|A Pennsylvania Railroad I1 similar to the freight train involved in the accident]]

[[File:PRR-I1s-OWI.jpg|thumb|220x220px|A Pennsylvania Railroad I1 similar to the freight train involved in the accident]]

[[File:WW Doodlebug1.jpg|thumb|A Wilmington and Western Doodlebug railcar similar to the one involved]]

[[File:WW Doodlebug1.jpg|thumb|A Wilmington and Western Doodlebug railcar similar to the one involved]]

The "doodlebug" concerned, No. 4648, a PRR class GEW275, was a self-propelled, gas-electric rail car that used gasoline to generate electricity to power its [[traction motors]]; it was one of 6 built in 1928 by [[Pullman Company|Pullman]]/[[Electro-Motive Diesel#Early years|Electro-Motive]].[[Interstate Commerce Commission]] [https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/46182 Investigation No.2440] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802002329/https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/46182 |date=2023-08-02 }}, via [[Bureau of Transportation Statistics]] ROSAP.{{cite web |url=http://trainweb.org/shannondell/doodlebug.html |title=The Doodlebug |publisher=Trainweb.org |access-date=July 7, 2010 |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721070415/http://trainweb.org/shannondell/doodlebug.html |url-status=dead }} It had departed [[Hudson, Ohio|Hudson]] at 5:49 pm on its usual {{convert|13|mi|adj=on}} run south to [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]] on a warm summer evening with 46 people aboard.[http://www.lafayette-ohssar.org/letters/Lafayette_Letters_February_2006.pdf Lafayette Letters] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727011844/http://www.lafayette-ohssar.org/letters/Lafayette_Letters_February_2006.pdf |date=July 27, 2011 }} At the same time, a freight train composed of two [[Pennsylvania Railroad I1 class|Pennsylvania Railroad I1SA]] [[2-10-0]] locomotives and 73 freight cars was traveling from [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]] to [[Cleveland]] departed [[Arlington, Ohio|Arlington]] in Akron heading north.[https://www.gendisasters.com/ohio/2321/cuyahoga-falls%2C-oh-head-train-collision%2C-july-1940 ''Piqua Daily Call''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326131151/http://www3.gendisasters.com/ohio/2321/cuyahoga-falls,-oh-head-train-collision,-july-1940 |date=March 26, 2012 }}, Ohio August 1, 1940

The "doodlebug" concerned, No. 4648, a PRR class GEW275, was a self-propelled, gas-electric rail car that used gasoline to generate electricity to power its [[traction motors]]; it was one of six built in 1928 by [[Pullman Company|Pullman]]/[[Electro-Motive Diesel#Early years|Electro-Motive]].[[Interstate Commerce Commission]] [https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/46182 Investigation No.2440] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802002329/https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/46182 |date=2023-08-02 }}, via [[Bureau of Transportation Statistics]] ROSAP.{{cite web |url=http://trainweb.org/shannondell/doodlebug.html |title=The Doodlebug |publisher=Trainweb.org |access-date=July 7, 2010 |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721070415/http://trainweb.org/shannondell/doodlebug.html |url-status=dead }} It had departed [[Hudson, Ohio|Hudson]] at 5:49 pm on its usual {{convert|13|mi|adj=on}} run south to [[Akron, Ohio|Akron]] on a warm summer evening with 46 people aboard.[http://www.lafayette-ohssar.org/letters/Lafayette_Letters_February_2006.pdf Lafayette Letters] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727011844/http://www.lafayette-ohssar.org/letters/Lafayette_Letters_February_2006.pdf |date=July 27, 2011 }} At the same time, a freight train composed of two [[Pennsylvania Railroad I1 class|Pennsylvania Railroad I1SA]] [[2-10-0]] locomotives, 73 freight cars and a caboose traveling from [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]] to [[Cleveland]] departed [[Arlington (neighborhood in Akron, Ohio)|Arlington]] in Akron heading north.[https://www.gendisasters.com/ohio/2321/cuyahoga-falls%2C-oh-head-train-collision%2C-july-1940 ''Piqua Daily Call''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326131151/http://www3.gendisasters.com/ohio/2321/cuyahoga-falls,-oh-head-train-collision,-july-1940 |date=March 26, 2012 }}, Ohio August 1, 1940

==Collision==

==Collision==