Galloping Geese ride again at Colo railroad museum

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.