Messing around with the camera settings made it look like vintage photo. I guess it's rather fighting. Oh the good old days of N scale when scenery was just blobs of moss and lichen, and square blocks of foam.
Maybe I'm crazy, but it sounds about as reliable as the real thing was when first built! If you recall, RGS track was only ever sketchy narrow gauge quality, and just barely sufficient to run trains. I'm sure the real Geese jumped frogs and picked switches, as well as ran erratically, when they ran!
While riding the Cubres & Toltec on June 3, 1998, we played leap frog with newly restored #5. They had it running smooth like a war surplus GMC gasoline engine should.
Somewhere high in the mountains a lone passenger rushes to catch the galloping goose while the station agent observes the departure.
You guys are mean! Now I'm looking at a couple of Kato powered chassis and a 4 wheel pilot truck and having evil thoughts...
I was looking for quite a while and came to almost a similar decision. Not quite the same but did find a couple Doodlebugs that kind of satisfied the same itch... https://1fatgmc.com/RailRoad/Decoder-1/page-25.html There is a 'Goose' on eBay now that you can 'buy it now' for a mere $359.99. There is this one about 80 miles away, but .... ... I don't think I can get it home. Sumner
Galloping Goose question: I am not finding answers to my question online. They were derived from full-sized automobiles. No. 2 and No. 6 were constructed with two trucks, with the rear truck powered on both axles. Did the 'Geese' have drivelines? They ran off Automobile engines...from what I have found. Did the power run through a 'transmission' and 'driveline' to the axles ? Or did the gas engines connect to an 'alternator' and thus it had electric traction motors? This pic has me confused... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/A_ride_on_the_Galloping_Goose_3_1951.JPG Any help will be appreciated...TIA .
Aiiyiiyii !! Such a tall order. There is a video I think by the Colorado Railroad Museum where they discuss and illustrate how the gooses were given wings and flew down the track. Windy as all get out and they kept knocking down the Western Union Telegraph lines. Finally they clipped their wings and settled down to a front wheel drive truck chassis with a chain drive mechanism to the front trucks. Okay, You got me. I'm blowing in the wind. However, there is a video that does share how they were made. I'll do a search and see if I can find it. Wait till I tell you how they coal fired the Back Ups or for those who aren't in the know, the Cab-Forwards that ran on the Southern Pacific. Back to the question at hand. Or a bird in the bush... This isn't what I was looking for but close enough.
I'll be interested in the answer but.... ... from the picture looks like they used a car/truck rear-end with probably a drive shaft to it and then chain drove the other set of wheels on the outboard side with a chain that connected the two axles. You can also see the chain drive in the picture ( HERE ). Unless it was going downhill I'd think the transmission would never be in the top gear (3rd or 4th gear or maybe higher if a truck transmission). With most standard transmissions in top gear the power is going straight thru the transmission. In other gears it runs through drive gears to the bottom shaft and then back through gear sets to the main shaft and to the driveshaft. Usually not ideal to go long distances in those gears but if it was a truck transmission, probably was, then they are designed to run in those lower gears. Sumner
This next video is the one I was thinking about. It's worth a look-see. I don't think anyone of them was built alike. Hopefully that answers your question.
Yes Rick, great video. I did not know that the box was articulated. Learned something. BTW, I'll bet that George is going to put his talented model work into building an N scale #7.
Here is another thought: If the Galloping Goose was considered a 'locomotive' then the statement that 'locomotives don't have drive lines' is FALSE ! .
I never saw the galloping geese as a locomotive. I don't remember hearing any railroad employees refer to it as such. A glorified speeder perhaps. But when you get into the world of toy train enthusiast you are liable to hear it called all kinds of things. The "I Call It Syndrome". The galloping goose or geese as mentioned above. They replaced the locomotives and it worked well, how be it for a short period of time. The right of way simply became to expensive to maintain and the silver mining resources played out. Thanks to someone in the Government deciding it didn't have any value. I said shaking my head in disgust. I don't know how many times decisions in Washington D.C. put thousands of people out of work. But that's a story for another time and place. The one thing I have on my roster is a stove, box car and observation car lettered Tonopah and Tidewater R&R. Look that up if you are wanting to do some research. Hint: Think Borax, Death Valley California and think it replaced the 22 Mule Team. Later.
