LCCA Announces Two New Offerings – a Pair of Doodlebugs!

For experienced railroad buffs, there is no need to define a doodlebug as a self-contained rail passenger car with its own engine. It is a railroad’s equivalent to a street trolley, a single self-powered unit carrying passenger. These strange creatures of the rails played an important role in transportation history, keeping rail passenger service alive to underserved communities for years. The LCCA brings the excitement and adventure of the doodlebug back with the introduction of doodlebugs herald for the Alsaka Railroad and in continuing livery for the LCCA of the Texas Special.

The LCCA Alaska Doodlebug (SKU 2401760) comes in the beautiful blue and yellow colors of Alaska Railroad. And Yes, the Alaska railroad did use doodlebugs.

 

The Texas Special Doodlebug (sku 2401770) continues the LCCA Texas Special theme with the wonderful red, white and yellow colors highlighted by the lone Texas Star. 

Both Doodlebug models share the following features:

• Command-control equipped. They operate via Bluetooth using a Universal Remote or LionChief App, via Command Control using TMCC or Legacy Cab, via conventional transformer, or lash-up with similar LC2.0 locomotives in Command Control.
• Speed control.
• Railsounds equipped – Gasoline engine and background sounds, Horn, Bell, Crewtalk/Towercom dialog.
• Lionel Voice Control (LVC) – run your locomotive by speaking commands into your phone via LionChief App.
• Fan-driven smoke.
• On-Off switch for smoke and sound.
• Dual ElectroCouplers™
• Powerful maintenance free motor.
• Die-cast trucks and pilot.
• Metal frame.
• Cab illumination.
• Length 14.5 inches.
• Minimum curve: 031.

Both the Alaska Doodlebug and the Texas Special Doodlebug sell for $359.00 each and shipping is FREE! Pre-order now for delivery in early December 2024. No limit on the number of Doodlebugs you may order! This makes a perfect Stocking Stuffer for the train collector looking for something new and different. Like the Prototype Doodlebug and the Dodo, once they are gone, they will be only a distant memory. Get yours today!

Hint - An exceptionally few of these units were ordered and are likely to sell out fast. The Texas Special doodlebug (SKU 2401760) will have 300 units available while the Alaska (SKU 2401770) will have substantially fewer. How did that happen?