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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- This week Accucraft's brass model in 1/20.3 scale of Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose #5.
Accucraft has made models of all 7 Rio Grande Southern "geese". Nice models of a super popular subject. They feature working chain drives and normally great performance. We say normally because our models have been in storage and need a bit of running in.
We thought as it's Christmas 2020 we can all use a bit of Christmas Goose. So for the next 4 weeks we will be looking at RGS Geese and a rail bus.
Wikipedia:
Galloping Goose is the popular name given to a series of seven railcars (officially designated as "motors" by the railroad), 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 or cargo income to justify continuing the expensive steam train service at then-current levels, but it was believed that a downsized railway would return to profitability. The steam trains would transport heavy cargo and peak passenger loads, but motors would handle lighter loads.
Motors were not only less expensive to operate, but were also significantly lighter, thus reducing impact on the rails and roadbeds. This cost saving meant that the first Goose was paid off and making a profit within three weeks of going into service. RGS built more Geese, and operated them until the company abandoned their right-of-way in 1952.
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Yet another wonderful piece of history! Nothing better than a gaggle of geese!👍✌️😊🙏🏼🚂🚂🚂
I just love the geese! I just saw goose no.5 while passing through Dolores the other day.
An afternoon hanging out with you guys and looking at your place and yard would be a wonderful day for me. Thanks for your work. Merry Christmas 🎅
You all have the most fun videos thank you keep up the fun. Enjoy a very
Merry Christmas
Hi. And THANKS 🙏. MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎁
@@ToyManTelevision rio grande southern is train ?
good heavens . nice model.
Covid lockdown project; scratch build Goose #7, Now that is a challenge for you to try. You folks are superb modelers, you could pull it off easily.
Merry Christmas ;-)
I’ve been thinking how fun it would be to scratch build half a goose. That is to say build it in it’s being created form. When it was partially car partially metal frame and a whole lot of woodwork going in before the sheet metal went on.
those "goose" are funny looking
THE GOOOOOOOSE!!!! One of the most unique pieces of railroadiana known to mankind!
They are unique and wonderful
Very beautiful brass model!!!
I enjoy all your videos so much!!!
Hi. Thanks!!
I always learn new things from your videos! No. 6 looked really neat, too
Hi. Thanks! More geese coming
I look forward to your videos to see what you are making and others for education like this video. Thank you
We rode the one at knots berry farm a couple or years ago, so very exciting.
Merry Christmas to you both.
Hi. Fun right? Did the guy say “watch your step. Watch your head. If you don’t watch your head watch your language!. “?
What amazing piece of equipment Filling a major utilitarian need. Railroads were usually very innovative And this is no exception, Much more economical to run Than anything steam powered, Such a cool model, Here's To ,next year running smoother than the last. Thanks for another great video Stay safe !!
Great show. Merry Christmas. I plan to visit Golden CO next summer!
Dale and Karyn you continue to surprise me!!! I love the Geese and yours are awesome. You should be able to add DCC wIth minimal invasive work. Thank you for sharing! I wish both of you a very Merry Christmas!
Just bought a DCC sound card for one!!
Hope to hear how it sounds in future show.
Merry Christmas guys from Brisbane Australia. We’ve appreciated all the video’s this year. Hope your 2021 is a better one.
Such a good video. I love them. I have seen the one at Knotts Berry Farm a long time ago. Also saw the 3 at (checked my photos, BTW they have #7 and 2 pickup trucks) . We have already disucussed my purchase of an N scale Goose but that is another story. Moral is when you see a Goose pull the trigger. Unique interesting but never boring.
I understand the n scale geese are quite good runners. I do wonder however if anybody’s ever made one in Nn3.
@@ToyManTelevision I was just glad to get one. They are rare as hens teeth. I can get an O scale goose easier than a an N scale.
Cripes!! Look at the size of that thing!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas 🎁
I love all mine... #’s 1,2,7,5 and 6! #5 is my favorite
Goose #5 is an enjoyable railroad vehicle too. So hard not to look at.
Nice model! I have photographed #5 on the Durango and Silverton during the winter photo train in 2018.
5 is our favorite
A Galloping Goose!
Hello Rita! Are those things the funnest? The great irony is that they were put together out of desperation cobble together out of chunk. Nobody took them seriously in the day nobody wanted to ride on one of them in the railroad didn’t want to have to even have them. So I suppose it’s only fitting now everyone loves them!
That is a very cool model indeed. Love the scale and looking forward to seeing it run the inside and outside layout
Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas/Happy Holiday to my favorite UA-cam couple 🎄🎄
Cary
Hi. Will show that! Just bought a sound board for one.
Merry🎄🎄🎁🎁🎁🎁
Merry Christmas right back at ya
Merry Christmas
Great Video. Merry Christmas :)
Dale and Karyn Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.
Merry Christmas,stay safe
Merry Christmas you two!!
Cool!
Thanks for showing your goose!!! I have been wating a long while to see them. I hope you do videos of your other gease if you get the chance. And thanks for actually running it. It is so cool to thouse modles at work.
Next 3 weeks’. Next Tuesday goose 7. Then goose 2. And finally the old 4 seat jitney.
@@ToyManTelevision cool!! Just out of curiosity, are modles of all gooses available in your layouts scale?
I think the Geese are great and innovative at the time.
They say great minds think alike... someplace I was here in the Pacific Northwest had a rail unit sitting to the side much like a Goose. I'm guessing it was used as a crummy for the logging crew's back in the day of logging railroads out here. Or it could have been used to get logging crews to the logging camps too.
A couple of years back I went to get a new USGS map, I found USGS had removed all the old logging grades and roads from the maps that were on the maps in the 1970s.
Everybody hop on the school tram.
This goose seems a bit hard to chew!
N°6 has an interesting look, I would like to make something like it for my narrow gauge layout.
I have one in ho scale i like them they are cool
Dale: you mentioned Wayne Coach Bodies. Well, they were an entity from my neck of the woods; located in Richmond, Indiana. I'm in Fort Wayne, IN. The original company has been defunct for quite a few years. Here is an information 'blurb' from Wikipedia. LINK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Corporation. Enjoy!
Thanks for that we’ve been reading it. Then we went off Chaice in school buses on the bluebird site! Thank you for the link!
Is it a geese or a goose??? It a very nice geese or goose thanks for the VIEW.
Great Goose ! Oh dear just something else ta ask Santa for, hope he makes them in 0 gauge...
THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEO AND YOUR INFORMATION AND THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE AS A SUBSCRIBER I APPRECIATE BOTH OF YOU AND YOUR SCREWING AROUND TIME NEVER BORING ALWAYS GOOD I DO APPRECIATE YOU BOTH FOR YOUR TIME HAVE A GOOD DAY BE SAFE AND CAREFUL MASK UP WHEN YOU GO OUT PLEASE. JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA 🙏👍😷😷😷😷🚂🚂🤗👌
I ride in #7 all the time
RGSRR hobbies has a #6 for sale
Love the gooses 😂😂 galloping geese! Wish I had the room (inside/outside!) to own 1/20.3 aka F Scale, thanks for sharing! I’d like to ride the 1:1, do they still offer rides from time to time? I don’t keep up with western narrow gauge activity. Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 to y’all!
Yes they sure do!!! Google goose 5 and check out the schedule. There was (is?) a plan to lay some track at Delories but they have a truck and take it to Chumbres all the time!! 62 miles of FUN!!!
@@ToyManTelevision sounds like a bucket list!
This is a beautiful model. Does anyone make a sound board for it. Hardly wait to see it on your layout.
If you put electrical conductivity lubricant (idk how to word that lol) on the wheels it will help it creep slowly without cutting out. I know Bachmann sells some.
Looks great we have something similar at Pichi Richi Railway Quorn preservation society called a Coffee Pot locomotive wise to look it up let me know what you think regards Robert ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Does your goose make a honking sound?
Don't forget the three or four that are at the Colorado Railroad Musceum in Golden. Don't know the number of the one of them that is of that body style.
Yep they have three of them over there all completely different. The to the sixth and the seventh!
@@ToyManTelevision I took pictures of all 3! Like you said they have a large loop (much like model train but in full scale). Such a neat place.
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Too bad they don’t still make the goose trucks in HO
Colorado railroad museum has #2 #6 and#7
That they do and they are a lot of fun. And now they’ve started taking seven around to all kinds of events
I have that goose i also owned the box truck one also i collect em i have ho, hon3 and n gooses think there is video of em all on my channel 7485jerry
NEC Life. geese not goose. 🙂