In today’s video, we take a look at the “Galloping Geese” of the Rio Grand Southern, perhaps some of the most quaint, cobbled together railcars in the US
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloping_Goose_(railcar)
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https://www.gallopinggoose5.org/history
http://drgw.free.fr/RGS/Goose/Goose_en.htm
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https://www.prewarbuick.com/features/galloping_goose_buick_rail_motor
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https://www.handeyesupply.com/blogs/hes/37112321-the-galloping-geese-of-the-colorado-rockies
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Some argue that it's pronounced "Rio Grand-ay" with emphasis on the "e", and while that might be accepted in some places, Duran Duran pronounced it as "Rio Grand", and so it'd be foolish to disagree with the band that made such classics as "Invisible" and "Hungry like the wolf"
I rode on a galloping goose when I was at the Colorado railroad museum. It was such a fun experience
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vid good btw =)
Duck called me a “galloping goose” splutter Gordon!
honk
Galloping geese are a huge part of Colorado railfanning culture. The Uintah also had a couple goobers but the Geese are iconic one of them ended up in Japan. Maybe one of the motors.
The galloping geese are precious and we love them. I think a model of every goose has been on the narrow gauge layout of the Grand valley model railroad club atleast once if I remember correct
there is a FAKE road going Galloping Goose #8 down in SW Colorado for sale
oh RGS never went to New Mexico
that was Denver & Rio Grande Railroad!
have read that parts from #1 was used for parts for #2
they found out that the gas mileage for the Geese was 1 to 3 MPGs LOL
somewhere along the history of the Pierce-Arrow Geese they lost the original fender lights
I got a Colorado Rail Annual about the Geese & it shows how to build a Goose! but where would I get 1936 P-A Limo? 🤣🤣
oh the RGS wasn't the only one that had a Goose Others had them too
Waitmainute, what the devil?!
I saw "Rio Grande Southern" and the Goose and I was expecting "What's up guys, this is Hyce."
I was not expecting to hear your Rightpondian accent. Then I checked what YouTubes channel this was.
I need more coffee, but it's great to see y'all collabing.
Maybe saved isn't the right word, more like delayed the inevitable…
With a pierce-arrow engine running hot on the loose,
Came the Rio Grande Southern, the Galloping Goose!
Only the OGs will remember when Choo Choo Bob and Richard W. Kornbelt rode Galloping Goose No. 7 and Koo Koo Kanga Roo did a guest appearance with a song about them. That's how I first learned about the Galloping Geese. About time they got some recognition on your channel as I find them to be very wild locomotives. While they didn't catch a lot of my interest at first, they still stuck out to me. A small, antique car cab and hood with a lumbering box car body stuck right behind it on dinky looking bogies. It is something that does not escape you. And, yes, please donate to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum.
0:35 is at Welshpool, Victoria, Australia.
2'6" (762mm) line from Welshpool to Welshpool Jetty. Run by the government Victorian Railways from 1905 to 1940 using horse power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welshpool_Jetty_railway_line
Great job on the video and the narration keep up the great work 🙂☕👍
Do a video on the Neilson 0-4-0 box tank engine on which Neil from the Railway series is based on.
8:05 – 8:12/8:17 Now, if you'll excuse me, I'D LIKE TO ME MY GALLOPING GOOSE SURPRISE!!!
The little reference in Cars 2 with Lizzie 😉
Dude RGS was the Temu of the narrow gauge 😂
4:05 hold up where is #6!? How can you go from 5 to 7
I go to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum on some days and i ride the trains there on my Birthday so thx ToT for helping help save the Museum i go to
Was that an untitled goose honk at the end?
PFFFT! "Geese"? At first, it's not everyday that they would pull a train with birds. But if it's a car, reminds me of the ghost bus that I saw on Sam's Trains.
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One of the galloping geeses are now at the Knott's berry farm theme park and it's the only one that actually left Colorado
Modified road vehicles on rail. Well I never
Love the reference to the Mallard. a UK steam engine I think. My friend from St. Ouen, Jersey (not a spotter) recognized it. Narragansett Bay
One thing you forgot to mention:
For decades, the remaining mines along the route were plagued by an annoying yellow gunk byproduct, which had to be dumped wherever space could be found in the narrow valleys. It was always good whenever the rains washed some away so that there was room for more.
Then, one day out of nowhere men with guns showed up and began carting it away, filling train-loads and moving it out under armed guard.
A use had been discovered for "Yellow Cake", aka Uranium Oxide.
Who would have thought that the tiny, little, perpetually broke RGS would have an important role to play in one of the momentous endeavors in human history, the Manhattan Project?
̶G̶o̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶i̶n Goose is a train.