I just drove the RGS Goose and I have to say it is one of the strangest locos I've ever driven (I mean that in a good way) -Hovertrain
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RE: Goose
I know it looks like a truck on the tracks:)
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>I know it looks like a truck on the tracks:)
Speaking of which: once I was at Greenfield Village when they had a bunch of tents with model train setups and I saw what looked like a tractor-trailer on rail wheels. The trailer also had rail wheels. I think it was O guage
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I know that it is odd. I made it. Glad to know that people have downloaded it.http://groups.msn.com/MSTSNarrowGauge
The Power Of Narrow Guage
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Hey guys
Somebody said it's a strange loco and it looks like a truck on rails. Both very true! It is indeed a truck on rails and not a locomotive at all. Rio Grande Southern began to use the "geese" in there latter days when the railroad began to be really financially troubled. The were used basically to deliver mail to the remote towns in the San Juan mountains because they were cheaper to operate for this purpose than were trains. The postal contract also allowed the troubled little railroad to stay afloat financially at least for a little while longer. Goose #7, probably the most famous goose, was really a roving post office on rails, stopping at all the little silver mining towns along the line. Just a little history lesson! You can learn more about the RGS geese at Colorado Railroad Museum: www.crrm.orgGrizzly
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RE: Goose
Most of the "Geese" were built out of old Pierce Arrow automobiles.M.R.
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