My wife's grandfather worked on the Galloping Goose's in Rico, CO, in the 20's and 30's. They moved to Durango and he worked on the Durango - Silverton Railroad until he passed away.My father-in-law had great stories about riding the Goose as a kid.
T'was a four-door automobile on a dozen wheels of iron, sixteen feet of rockin' boxcar spot welded to her tail, loaded down with mercantile, ten bags of high-grade ore, two mothers nursin' babies, seven miners, and the mail. C.W. McCall
Well it works. Recycling is the best way forward in these times. Get out of the bad habit of chucking away items that can be repaired. Also you don’t need the latest gadgets if the ones you have are in good working order. Don’t be a lemming and follow the crowd.
Galloping Goose C W Mc Call th-cam.com/video/iJRjiMDSCW0/w-d-xo.html "The Gallopin' Goose" On a cold November mornin' Back in nineteen-thirty-seven With an early snow a-fallin' On the three-foot tracks at Ames Came a mighty strange contraption Known to trainmen as a motor But to folks in Colorado She was known by another name Up the canyons south of Sawpit Past the red Cathedral spires 'Cross the yellow mountain switchbacks And the rapids far below On the high and lofty trestles Near the fabled mines of Ophir In the silver San Juan Mountains Came a goose a-plowin' snow With a Pierce-Arrow engine Runnin' hot and on the loose Came the Rio Grande Southern The Gallopin' Goose With a Pierce-Arrow engine Runnin' hot and on the loose Came Number Five, The Gallopin' Goose 'Twas a four-door auto-mobile On a dozen wheels of iron Sixteen feet of rockin' boxcar Spot-welded to her tail Loaded down with mercantile Ten bags a' high-grade ore Two mothers nursin' babies Seven miners an' the mail Up the side a' Sunshine Mountain By internal gas combustion Eight Pierce-Arrow pistons pullin' Fifteen thousand pounds a' lead At the snowshed on the summit The conductor said his prayers He declared a busted driveshaft On the pass at Lizard Head With a Pierce-Arrow engine Runnin' hot and on the loose Came the Rio Grande Southern The Gallopin' Goose With a Pierce-Arrow engine Runnin' hot and on the loose Came Number Five, The Gallopin' Goose Down the three-percent to Rico In the valley of Dolores They still talk about the Southern An' her flock of flyin' geese From the roundhouse at Ridgway To the depot at Durango All the tracks are gone for scrap iron And the ganders rest in peace Up the canyons south of Sawpit Past the red Cathedral spires 'Cross the yellow mountain switchbacks And the rapids far below On the high and lofty trestles Near the fabled mines of Ophir In the silver San Juan Mountains There's a legend in the snow With a Pierce-Arrow engine Runnin' hot and on the loose Came the Rio Grande Southern The Gallopin' Goose With a Pierce-Arrow engine Runnin' hot and on the loose Came Number Five, The Gallopin' Goose
I grew up in Telluride, CO in the 60s and we used to have one parked along the main street. We used to play in it all the time. Also, lived in Ouray and Durango. If you ever get a chance go see/ride on these.
I may be mistaken but some of the goose fleet were built on Pierce-Arrow frames about 1932. I had a friend who built a full scale readable replica on a Dodge (I think) truck frame in the early to mid 1970’s. His plan was to drive it to the Colorado Railroad Museum. I don’t know what happened to it as I moved away.
The Geese were the RGS's last effort to keep their railroad operating. They didn't have enough revenue to keep operating with the steam engines that had hauled their trains for many years in the high mountains of southern Colorado, but the Geese enabled them to stave off bankruptcy and abandonment for a few more years. CW McCall wrote and sang a song about them a while ago.
As shown in the OLD "Stan Midgley" movies shared around the country on tv and special showings in Detroit. I went into film and video production because of him !
I'm a volunteer at the Colo railroad Museum and have worked on goose #7 she is one good girl! but Not Weird she is unique like all of her sisters #6 #5 #4 #3 And #2
The front looks like a White Motor Company bus circa 1927, Glacier National Park. MT. Archive’s has a similar model of a convertible top bus, # 113. (See rondel to the left).
My grandfather worked as conductor and occasional engineer on the Port Townsend Southern Railroad operating a similar "gallopin' goose"' that ran a regularly scheduled. passenger service between Port Townsend and Quilcene, both within Washington State. He was quite proud of his job and worked hard to keep it going. Being a first generation Italian immigrant, jobs like this were few. He was Antonio Donato De Leo. i will try to get additional from our historical society museum.
I like it I just wish they were talking and telling us about the unit. I would enjoy learning what the vehicle is. You guys cool is at how it was made instead of just looking without being told anything. I enjoyed the story very much. It just would have been better if there was audio tell me nothing about it. Thank you
Originally this was all Buick, body, frame, engine etc. In the 40's the body and engine were swapped out and a Pierce Arrow body and engine replaced them on #6
Well, the RR that built them - the RGS - was broke all the time ans runs thru a region which was scarsley populated ( it still is today) So to cut down costs of running a steam powered passenger train with 3 emploees, they built this vehicle which could be operated by one man. Got some influence from German Railcars of the 1920ies also built from bus components.
I'm surprised by the ignorance of a lot of the younger people. Get your head out of rectum and open your eyes. You spend way too much time gaming and such in mommys basement. I blame a lot of the stupidity and ignorance on bad parenting. Also most of them don't have any commen sense.
The engines are Ford flathead V-8s which replaced the original Pierce Arrow engines. Not that anything was wrong with the Pierce engines but additional horsepower was needed to accommodate the extra weight.
Up the canyon south of saw pits, through the red cathedral spires up the yellow mountain switchbacks and the rapids far below. Up the high and lofty tressle near the fabled mines of Opher in the silver San Juan mountains came a goose plowing snow!
Might want to edit your grammatically awkward title. Should read "Riding One of the Weirdest Trains in America." ("Trains" with an "s" and "in America")
I don't understand how people can go to all the trouble of producing a youtube video but then publish it with a screwed up title. How hard is it to write "Riding one of the weirdest trains in America"?
My wife's grandfather worked on the Galloping Goose's in Rico, CO, in the 20's and 30's. They moved to Durango and he worked on the Durango - Silverton Railroad until he passed away.My father-in-law had great stories about riding the Goose as a kid.
T'was a four-door automobile on a dozen wheels of iron, sixteen feet of rockin' boxcar spot welded to her tail, loaded down with mercantile, ten bags of high-grade ore, two mothers nursin' babies, seven miners, and the mail. C.W. McCall
Well it works. Recycling is the best way forward in these times. Get out of the bad habit of chucking away items that can be repaired. Also you don’t need the latest gadgets if the ones you have are in good working order. Don’t be a lemming and follow the crowd.
Galloping Goose C W Mc Call th-cam.com/video/iJRjiMDSCW0/w-d-xo.html
"The Gallopin' Goose"
On a cold November mornin'
Back in nineteen-thirty-seven
With an early snow a-fallin'
On the three-foot tracks at Ames
Came a mighty strange contraption
Known to trainmen as a motor
But to folks in Colorado
She was known by another name
Up the canyons south of Sawpit
Past the red Cathedral spires
'Cross the yellow mountain switchbacks
And the rapids far below
On the high and lofty trestles
Near the fabled mines of Ophir
In the silver San Juan Mountains
Came a goose a-plowin' snow
With a Pierce-Arrow engine
Runnin' hot and on the loose
Came the Rio Grande Southern
The Gallopin' Goose
With a Pierce-Arrow engine
Runnin' hot and on the loose
Came Number Five, The Gallopin' Goose
'Twas a four-door auto-mobile
On a dozen wheels of iron
Sixteen feet of rockin' boxcar
Spot-welded to her tail
Loaded down with mercantile
Ten bags a' high-grade ore
Two mothers nursin' babies
Seven miners an' the mail
Up the side a' Sunshine Mountain
By internal gas combustion
Eight Pierce-Arrow pistons pullin'
Fifteen thousand pounds a' lead
At the snowshed on the summit
The conductor said his prayers
He declared a busted driveshaft
On the pass at Lizard Head
With a Pierce-Arrow engine
Runnin' hot and on the loose
Came the Rio Grande Southern
The Gallopin' Goose
With a Pierce-Arrow engine
Runnin' hot and on the loose
Came Number Five, The Gallopin' Goose
Down the three-percent to Rico
In the valley of Dolores
They still talk about the Southern
An' her flock of flyin' geese
From the roundhouse at Ridgway
To the depot at Durango
All the tracks are gone for scrap iron
And the ganders rest in peace
Up the canyons south of Sawpit
Past the red Cathedral spires
'Cross the yellow mountain switchbacks
And the rapids far below
On the high and lofty trestles
Near the fabled mines of Ophir
In the silver San Juan Mountains
There's a legend in the snow
With a Pierce-Arrow engine
Runnin' hot and on the loose
Came the Rio Grande Southern
The Gallopin' Goose
With a Pierce-Arrow engine
Runnin' hot and on the loose
Came Number Five, The Gallopin' Goose
The camerawork is sheer poetry. Thanks for posting!
You have to love that the rear wheel arches of the main cab were just sheeted over. It's not even a custom body. LOVE IT!
Absolutely fantastic, I watched it right till the end! I love the old Coal Fired heater too! I'm definitely subscribing to this channel!!
Oh yeah! The Galloping Goose! A classic of the USA railroad history.
I grew up in Telluride, CO in the 60s and we used to have one parked along the main street. We used to play in it all the time. Also, lived in Ouray and Durango. If you ever get a chance go see/ride on these.
I may be mistaken but some of the goose fleet were built on Pierce-Arrow frames about 1932. I had a friend who built a full scale readable replica on a Dodge (I think) truck frame in the early to mid 1970’s. His plan was to drive it to the Colorado Railroad Museum. I don’t know what happened to it as I moved away.
The Geese were the RGS's last effort to keep their railroad operating. They didn't have enough revenue to keep operating with the steam engines that had hauled their trains for many years in the high mountains of southern Colorado, but the Geese enabled them to stave off bankruptcy and abandonment for a few more years. CW McCall wrote and sang a song about them a while ago.
Used to have something like this in the UK. We called it a "Pacer"...
We had here in Finland an old ”four hole Buick” as a track car in Helsinki. Sadly it was demolished.
As shown in the OLD "Stan Midgley" movies shared around the country on tv and special showings in Detroit. I went into film and video production because of him !
There is one like this at Knott's Berry Farm also, still runs.
I'm a volunteer at the Colo railroad Museum and have worked on goose #7 she is one good girl!
but Not Weird she is unique like all of her sisters #6 #5 #4 #3 And #2
That's right Matt. Show love and respect for the old gals. They have certainly earned it by years of faithful service.
The front looks like a White Motor Company bus circa 1927, Glacier National Park. MT. Archive’s has a similar model of a convertible top bus, # 113. (See rondel to the left).
They’re both late 1920s Pierce-Arrow bodies.
A retro fitted Car to an old Carriage, on tracks, That is some post Apocalypse machine
Referencing "Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome" .
exactly @@haweater1555
My grandfather worked as conductor and occasional engineer on the Port Townsend Southern Railroad operating a similar "gallopin' goose"' that ran a regularly scheduled. passenger service between Port Townsend and Quilcene, both within Washington State. He was quite proud of his job and worked hard to keep it going. Being a first generation Italian immigrant, jobs like this were few. He was Antonio Donato De Leo. i will try to get additional from our historical society museum.
I like it I just wish they were talking and telling us about the unit.
I would enjoy learning what the vehicle is. You guys cool is at how it was made instead of just looking without being told anything.
I enjoyed the story very much. It just would have been better if there was audio tell me nothing about it.
Thank you
Exactly!
"Show, don't tell" is a guideline, not a mandate.
I have ridden Goose #7 several times in Chama and also 3 others at the Colorado Museum.
🚅 don't you all enjoy railroad
🚈 trams, trains etc are just so cool
🚞 take a ride in my ''transportation'' folder :)
Cool Railbus Train 👍👍👍👍👍🚂
The "Southern" and their flock of "Flying Geese".
Originally this was all Buick, body, frame, engine etc. In the 40's the body and engine were swapped out and a Pierce Arrow body and engine replaced them on #6
Yeah I remember those local but they held up.
Lovely scenery.
Love this! ❤
2:03 if the train is rockin, don't bother knockin
The only time I rode the goose was at Knott's Berry Farm
Hqving watched this,: I know little more than I did before. A narrative of the historical, social, & economic background would be useful.
I agree. I clicked on this video to learn something, not look at “artsy” shots.
There are loads of information in the comments.
@@markniilo So?
@@brucealanwilson4121 So read them. Quite informative.
Its like Thomas the train meets Mad Max. Why and How does this thing exist? One of the weirdest things I have seen in a long time.
Well, the RR that built them - the RGS - was broke all the time ans runs thru a region which was scarsley populated ( it still is today)
So to cut down costs of running a steam powered passenger train with 3 emploees, they built this vehicle which could be operated by one man. Got some influence from German Railcars of the 1920ies also built from bus components.
I'm surprised by the ignorance of a lot of the younger people. Get your head out of rectum and open your eyes. You spend way too much time gaming and such in mommys basement. I blame a lot of the stupidity and ignorance on bad parenting. Also most of them don't have any commen sense.
Fascinating! What engine is that? Looks very basic but runs beautifully.
Thanks for the post.
The engines are Ford flathead V-8s which replaced the original Pierce Arrow engines. Not that anything was wrong with the Pierce engines but additional horsepower was needed to accommodate the extra weight.
@@paulhare662 Several of the Geese were repowered with surplus CCKW engines after the war.
GMC ENGINES in those CCKW"s@@michigandon
@@brendagaunce8757 With a split exhaust manifold and a pair of Cherry Bombs, they sound awesome.
Yes, I'm well aware of that @@brendagaunce8757
Up the canyon south of saw pits, through the red cathedral spires up the yellow mountain switchbacks and the rapids far below. Up the high and lofty tressle near the fabled mines of Opher in the silver San Juan mountains came a goose plowing snow!
I love the song.
What gauge is this machine? Looks like the turntable has 2 sets of rails
3 ft and the turntable has also standard gauge.
The Geese! NICE
The only difference between the men and the boys is the price of their toys!
Who invented this train, because this train is the weirdest train that I've ever seen here on TH-cam?
Great video
Did you say hi to Hyce? He is a TH-camr who works there as an engineer.
The camera work was pretty good now if you had a good narrator you would have hit out of the park
What a tran, on the round table , now ready to roll, load passengers, on the way, and what a ride!!!!
Mientras tenga alguien que se ocupe de cuidarlo andará bien, necesita preocupación
What train 🚂 locomotive! Mike from Missouri
Seen the one in Dolores Co
Thats #7
Une inspiration de la célèbre "Micheline" ?
We had similar here in Australia but smaller. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEC_railmotor
Realmente e uma girigonsa, quem será que fez esse trem, caminhão, Fordeco sei lá
😂
요즘 미국에 이런 기차가 있다는 게 믿기 지가 않네요.
How about telling us about engine, what he is oiling, why ?
Railbus!
Guarda con el tren qué viene a gran velocidad, no queremos accidentes...
!!!
Save train Big speed loving... accident...!!!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
It’s not a train. I would call it a doodle bug, or motorcar.
WHERE IS hyce
not a train... it's a bus that runs on a track
Cause I'm bussing...
It is a train but it is a bus
It is kindof a train - the boxy part articulates on the centre bogie - making it like a semi truck setup.
米国版「銀龍号」
really why a limo they choose
It’s what the railroad had at the time and not a limo
アメリカにも根室が
アメリカ版ネムタクとはこの事か！
What is Nemataku?
@@steffenrosmus9177It is an abbreviation for the Nemuro Takushoku Railway, a railroad that ran in Hokkaido.
どうしてこうなった！
ネムタクやんけw
Maybe a little less “artsy” filming and actually talk about the history and details of the train?
Might want to edit your grammatically awkward title. Should read "Riding One of the Weirdest Trains in America." ("Trains" with an "s" and "in America")
I don't understand how people can go to all the trouble of producing a youtube video but then publish it with a screwed up title. How hard is it to write "Riding one of the weirdest trains in America"?
What does your title say?
Usually the tekniq vids are really interesting and worth watching but this one is amazingly boring
You're amazingly awful
Rude
@@Jackcook27telling the truth is being rude. This was an extremely boring and un informative video. Sorry if that hurts your little feelings.
It's a train no it's a bus no it's a car who cares.
wheres @hyce
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloping_Goose_(railcar)
@hyce