Riding One of the Weirdest Train of America

[@marshallpoe8087]

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.

[@Counselor77]

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

[@cannyexplorer5357]

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.

[@nailbender6079]

Galloping Goose C W Mc Call kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3u1m5yDebh2jZI "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

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

The camerawork is sheer poetry. Thanks for posting!

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

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!

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

Absolutely fantastic, I watched it right till the end! I love the old Coal Fired heater too! I'm definitely subscribing to this channel!!

[@Colorado_Native]

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.

[@El_Transportacoches_33]

Oh yeah! The Galloping Goose! A classic of the USA railroad history.

[@allenra530]

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.

[@davewinter2688]

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.

[@ogr7771]

There is one like this at Knott's Berry Farm also, still runs.

[@Sn0wc4t]

Used to have something like this in the UK. We called it a "Pacer"...

[@mattomon1045]

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

[@pauld6967]

That's right Matt. Show love and respect for the old gals. They have certainly earned it by years of faithful service.

[@mattikaki]

We had here in Finland an old ”four hole Buick” as a track car in Helsinki. Sadly it was demolished.

[@fredmanicke5078]

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).

[@dwderp]

They’re both late 1920s Pierce-Arrow bodies.

[@GamingCraftTeam]

A retro fitted Car to an old Carriage, on tracks, That is some post Apocalypse machine

[@haweater1555]

Referencing "Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome" .

[@GamingCraftTeam]

exactly @@haweater1555

[@tonydeleo3642]

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.

[@allennoftz6610]

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 !

[@KenanTurkiye]

🚅 don't you all enjoy railroad 🚈 trams, trains etc are just so cool 🚞 take a ride in my ''transportation'' folder :)

[@days4day234]

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

[@jepolch]

Exactly!

[@brucealanwilson4121]

"Show, don't tell" is a guideline, not a mandate.

[@pietjebell]

Cool Railbus Train 👍👍👍👍👍🚂

[@RobertGratz-os5zg]

The "Southern" and their flock of "Flying Geese".

[@dennischerry4545]

I have ridden Goose #7 several times in Chama and also 3 others at the Colorado Museum.

[@ogr7771]

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

[@scottpool4777]

Yeah I remember those local but they held up.

[@tm502010]

Love this! ❤

[@ldnwholesale8552]

Lovely scenery.

[@MGower4465]

2:03 if the train is rockin, don't bother knockin

[@MK-of7qw]

What gauge is this machine? Looks like the turntable has 2 sets of rails

[@steffenrosmus9177]

3 ft and the turntable has also standard gauge.

[@Zino-Phoenix-68]

Who invented this train, because this train is the weirdest train that I've ever seen here on KZbin?

[@dieselfan7406]

Fascinating! What engine is that? Looks very basic but runs beautifully. Thanks for the post.

[@ozzietadziu]

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.

[@michigandon]

@@paulhare662 Several of the Geese were repowered with surplus CCKW engines after the war.

[@brendagaunce8757]

GMC ENGINES in those CCKW"s@@michigandon

[@paulhare662]

@@brendagaunce8757 With a split exhaust manifold and a pair of Cherry Bombs, they sound awesome.

[@michigandon]

Yes, I'm well aware of that @@brendagaunce8757

[@brucealanwilson4121]

Hqving watched this,: I know little more than I did before. A narrative of the historical, social, & economic background would be useful.

[@TheCrazyMoparDude68]

I agree. I clicked on this video to learn something, not look at “artsy” shots.

[@markniilo]

There are loads of information in the comments.

[@brucealanwilson4121]

@@markniilo So?

[@markniilo]

@@brucealanwilson4121 So read them. Quite informative.

[@Acehitman369]

The only time I rode the goose was at Knott's Berry Farm

[@johnnyfreedom3437]

The only difference between the men and the boys is the price of their toys!

[@Zenas521]

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.

[@steffenrosmus9177]

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.

[@saddletramp6935]

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.

[@ytzpilot]

Great video

[@mdouglaswray]

The Geese! NICE

[@MikeLoveBuns]

What train 🚂 locomotive! Mike from Missouri

[@marshallbaldwin395]

The camera work was pretty good now if you had a good narrator you would have hit out of the park

[@omega_mlg1027]

Did you say hi to Hyce? He is a KZbinr who works there as an engineer.

[@davidhack4515]

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!

[@Counselor77]

I love the song.

[@zptmxmkim1209]

요즘 미국에 이런 기차가 있다는 게 믿기 지가 않네요.

[@barryrollins2728]

What a tran, on the round table , now ready to roll, load passengers, on the way, and what a ride!!!!

[@luisaeibar4476]

Mientras tenga alguien que se ocupe de cuidarlo andará bien, necesita preocupación

[@briansaxton1646]

Seen the one in Dolores Co

[@EdmondSmith-u8o]

Thats #7

[@BelasArtes14]

Realmente e uma girigonsa, quem será que fez esse trem, caminhão, Fordeco sei lá 😂

[@Eccoriens80]

Une inspiration de la célèbre "Micheline" ?

[@japiearangies]

How about telling us about engine, what he is oiling, why ?

[@GpunktHartman]

Railbus!

[@joserodri5178]

Guarda con el tren qué viene a gran velocidad, no queremos accidentes... !!! Save train Big speed loving... accident...!!!

[@gold3084]

We had similar here in Australia but smaller. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEC_railmotor

[@enrico-q9v]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@erikunderbar4265]

WHERE IS hyce

[@redlight722]

It’s not a train. I would call it a doodle bug, or motorcar.

[@rossramsdell7584]

not a train... it's a bus that runs on a track

[@GuyMcPherson69]

Cause I'm bussing...

[@Jackcook27]

It is a train but it is a bus

[@haweater1555]

It is kindof a train - the boxy part articulates on the centre bogie - making it like a semi truck setup.

[@木島ノ安岐]

米国版「銀龍号」

[@Shimaneko227]

アメリカ版ネムタクとはこの事か！

[@steffenrosmus9177]

What is Nemataku?

[@RailfanSS1028]

​@@steffenrosmus9177It is an abbreviation for the Nemuro Takushoku Railway, a railroad that ran in Hokkaido.

[@ubic_FTK]

アメリカにも根室が

[@jgood1227]

really why a limo they choose

[@Jackcook27]

It’s what the railroad had at the time and not a limo

[@suronefu25]

どうしてこうなった！

[@TheCrazyMoparDude68]

Maybe a little less “artsy” filming and actually talk about the history and details of the train?

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

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")

[@gomaiti]

ネムタクやんけw

[@TenCJones]

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"?

[@Eastern_European_Farming]

What does your title say?

[@toomuchinformationforu9919]

Usually the tekniq vids are really interesting and worth watching but this one is amazingly boring

[@KevinSiebert]

You're amazingly awful

[@Jackcook27]

Rude

[@TheCrazyMoparDude68]

@@Jackcook27telling the truth is being rude. This was an extremely boring and un informative video. Sorry if that hurts your little feelings.

[@edwardmartinez9459]

It's a train no it's a bus no it's a car who cares.

[@dfwrider3830]

wheres @hyce

[@b43xoit]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloping_Goose_(railcar)

[@Xenthera]

@hyce