Galloping Geese ride again at Colo railroad museum

By Dan Elliott
Published June 14, 2012 1:19pm ET
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Galloping Geese ride again at Colo railroad museum
In this May 31, 2012 photo Al Blount a volunteer at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colo., stands beside Golden Goose #6 as he talks about the history of the converted automobiles. Six out of seven of the Galloping Geese that were built by the railroads in the 1930s are scheduled to be on display at the museum this weekend. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) | Ed Andrieski

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — Seven contraptions known as the Galloping Geese may be the most motley-looking machines — and the most endearing — ever to rattle down American railroad tracks.

A mash-up of vintage autos, buses and railroad cars, the Geese were cobbled together in the 1930s by the Rio Grande Southern, a luckless and threadbare railroad that served mining towns in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado.

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