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galloping goose
3 Porch Notes tagged “galloping goose,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Ouray County
Ridgway grew up around a railroad, and a museum keeps that story
The town of Ridgway began as the northern terminus of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, and the Ridgway Railroad Museum tells that story, including the line's famous Galloping Goose railcars.
Read note ->History and culture - Montezuma County
The Galloping Goose in Dolores is a leftover from a vanished railroad
Dolores keeps a restored 'Galloping Goose,' a homemade motor car the Rio Grande Southern Railroad used to survive in its final decades before the line was scrapped.
Read note ->History and culture - San Miguel County
The Galloping Goose: how a struggling railroad kept Telluride connected
The narrow-gauge Rio Grande Southern once served Telluride, and during hard times it ran odd rail cars called Galloping Geese to keep going.
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