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Before you could drive across Lake Pontchartrain, you could step off a steamship and onto a trolley without even reaching shore…and that trolley had a name: the Doodlebug!!🚋 Living in Hammond my whole life and now working in Mandeville,  I had no idea how much history was behind this little motorcar. With October being Doodlebug Month, I started researching. One photograph led to another and I had to know more 🩶 Between 1909 and 1918, the Doodlebug connected Mandeville, Abita Springs, and Covington. Its tracks stretched out onto a wooden pier over Lake Pontchartrain, where passengers arriving from New Orleans could transfer directly from their steamship to the waiting motorcar. Imagine arriving for a summer weekend: music from the excursion band, people gathering on the pier, and a trolley ready to carry you through town and into the pine woods. Thirteen and a half miles. Three communities. A trip advertised at forty-five minutes. Operated by the St. Tammany & New Orleans Railways & Ferry Company, chartered in 1906, the line is credited to builder Joseph Birg. According to historian Dr. Karl Koenig, the early motorcar ran on gasoline, with electric operation coming later. But the little everyday details are what pulled me into its story: A nickel could get a child to school and back. Promotional material offered schoolchildren a five-cent round-trip fare.You could hail a ride along the route. Advertisements invited residents to imagine stepping outside their front gates and catching the motorcar. Fifty cents bought an advertised outing to Mandeville. An April 1909 church excursion offered adult tickets for 50 cents and children’s tickets for 25 cents, departing Covington at 3 p.m. and leaving Mandeville to return at 6 p.m. These were not simply the tracks we now know as the Tammany Trace. The trolley followed a separate alignment in places, crossing the other railroad near Abita Springs. Then there is the little cottage at 125 Coffee Street. Local historical interpretation identifies it as a surviving connection to the trolley operation, a residence once tucked inside the much larger car barn. The barn appears on Mandeville’s 1909 Sanborn map. That is the kind of detail that changes how you see a place you might otherwise pass without a second thought. Working here daily I appreciate it. The Doodlebug’s story had difficult chapters, too. In 1909, Car No. 17 was destroyed by fire at Chinchuba after, according to newspaper reporting, a lantern flame ignited gas during an engine inspection. Still, the company kept planning ahead. In 1915, Covington authorized trolley poles and wires for electric service under a franchise extending to 1940. Just three years later, the line was in liquidation. In August 1918, the St. Tammany Farmer reported its sale to a St. Louis company for $86,900. But the community was not ready to let it go. Residents organized meetings to discuss restoring service and possibly extending the route to Madisonville. One announcement even scheduled a trolley car to bring people from Mandeville and Abita Springs to a meeting about saving the line itself. That detail stays with me. The effort ultimately failed, and historical accounts describe equipment being sold for scrap. But the photographs remain, along with glimpses of the people who rode it: children heading to school, families visiting relatives, and young people enjoying a weekend outing. Now, when I look at Mandeville’s lakefront, I can picture the tracks reaching out over the water and the Doodlebug waiting to bring its passengers ashore. Historical research compiled by Ron Barthes, including historic photographs, maps, and St. Tammany Farmer newspaper accounts, with additional historical accounts attributed to Dr. Karl Koenig. Thank you, Ron, for helping preserve and share this piece of Louisiana history. #Doodlebugmonth-#MandevilleHistory #LouisianaHistory #AbitaSprings #Covington
Before you could drive across Lake Pontchartrain, you could step off a steamship and onto a trolley without even reaching shore…and that trolley had a name: the Doodlebug!!🚋 Living in Hammond my whole life and now working in Mandeville, I had no idea how much history was behind this little motorcar. With October being Doodlebug Month, I started researching. One photograph led to another and I had to know more 🩶 Between 1909 and 1918, the Doodlebug connected Mandeville, Abita Springs, and Covington. Its tracks stretched out onto a wooden pier over Lake Pontchartrain, where passengers arriving from New Orleans could transfer directly from their steamship to the waiting motorcar. Imagine arriving for a summer weekend: music from the excursion band, people gathering on the pier, and a trolley ready to carry you through town and into the pine woods. Thirteen and a half miles. Three communities. A trip advertised at forty-five minutes. Operated by the St. Tammany & New Orleans Railways & Ferry Company, chartered in 1906, the line is credited to builder Joseph Birg. According to historian Dr. Karl Koenig, the early motorcar ran on gasoline, with electric operation coming later. But the little everyday details are what pulled me into its story: A nickel could get a child to school and back. Promotional material offered schoolchildren a five-cent round-trip fare.You could hail a ride along the route. Advertisements invited residents to imagine stepping outside their front gates and catching the motorcar. Fifty cents bought an advertised outing to Mandeville. An April 1909 church excursion offered adult tickets for 50 cents and children’s tickets for 25 cents, departing Covington at 3 p.m. and leaving Mandeville to return at 6 p.m. These were not simply the tracks we now know as the Tammany Trace. The trolley followed a separate alignment in places, crossing the other railroad near Abita Springs. Then there is the little cottage at 125 Coffee Street. Local historical interpretation identifies it as a surviving connection to the trolley operation, a residence once tucked inside the much larger car barn. The barn appears on Mandeville’s 1909 Sanborn map. That is the kind of detail that changes how you see a place you might otherwise pass without a second thought. Working here daily I appreciate it. The Doodlebug’s story had difficult chapters, too. In 1909, Car No. 17 was destroyed by fire at Chinchuba after, according to newspaper reporting, a lantern flame ignited gas during an engine inspection. Still, the company kept planning ahead. In 1915, Covington authorized trolley poles and wires for electric service under a franchise extending to 1940. Just three years later, the line was in liquidation. In August 1918, the St. Tammany Farmer reported its sale to a St. Louis company for $86,900. But the community was not ready to let it go. Residents organized meetings to discuss restoring service and possibly extending the route to Madisonville. One announcement even scheduled a trolley car to bring people from Mandeville and Abita Springs to a meeting about saving the line itself. That detail stays with me. The effort ultimately failed, and historical accounts describe equipment being sold for scrap. But the photographs remain, along with glimpses of the people who rode it: children heading to school, families visiting relatives, and young people enjoying a weekend outing. Now, when I look at Mandeville’s lakefront, I can picture the tracks reaching out over the water and the Doodlebug waiting to bring its passengers ashore. Historical research compiled by Ron Barthes, including historic photographs, maps, and St. Tammany Farmer newspaper accounts, with additional historical accounts attributed to Dr. Karl Koenig. Thank you, Ron, for helping preserve and share this piece of Louisiana history. #Doodlebugmonth-#MandevilleHistory #LouisianaHistory #AbitaSprings #Covington

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