Galloping Goose (railcar)
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galloping-goose-railcar-166-2299138
title:
Galloping Goose (railcar)
text:
Galloping Goose is the popular name given to a series of seven railcars, built in the 1930s by the Rio Grande Southern Railroad (RGS) and operated until the end of service on the line in the early 1950s. They were derived from full-sized automobiles. Originally running steam locomotives on narrow gauge railways, the perpetually struggling RGS developed the first of the "geese" as a way to keep its contract to run mail into towns in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. There was not enough passenger
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Improvised railcars of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloping_Goose_(railcar)
date created:
2005-06-24T15:11:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T04:19:49Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/GallopingGoose1952.jpg","width":1335,"height":899}
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13
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