timmuir, on 19 February 2018 - 12:55 PM, said:
Pacific Electric #966 is called upon to switch out the empty sand gondola at Ocean Park car house. This was, in fact, an occasional duty for the 950's, to act as switchers around the property.
This reminded me of a funny little piece of trivia. For a short while right before their retirement, the CB&Q used some of their doodlebugs as switch engines on branchlines. It's a bit funny when you think about it, because how often do you see Doodlebugs pulling freight cars? You don't really, do you? It's rare enough to see them pulling a trailer or a coach, let alone 3 or 4 boxcars. But I guess it happened, and it may have happened on other railroads, because I have seen footage of a Rock Island doodlebug working a local freight, so I guess it's not that unusual.