Con-Cor
Railcar Galloping Goose Powered HO Standard Gauge
Rio Grande Southern #5 (As In Dolores, Colorado)
Walthers Part # 223-4131, p. 65 Walthers 2011 HO Scale Reference
HO scale, $189.98, not currently in stock at Walthers, Expected: 28-May-2012
Many railroads had railbuses in one version or another. They were used on
both the branch lines of the major railroads and on the local smaller
railroads and narrow gauge lines.
When Con-Cor decided to do research for a model of a Railbus, we found that
some of the most famous of all Railbuses, the Rio Grande Southerns
"Galloping Geese," were still around and some are still running in tourist
service.
This model of the Galloping Goose is a faithful representation of the
original freight and passenger version of Goose #5, which first hit the
rails in 1933. Number 5 was virtually identical to Geese #3 and #4, which
were built a bit earlier. Goose #5 presently lives in Dolores, Colorado,
and is in full operating condition. Other Geese can be found in Telluride,
Colorado, at Knotts Berry Farm, and at the Colorado Railroad Museum in
Golden, Colorado. Other Railbuses can be found in train museums across the
United States, such as the one in St. Louis, Missouri.
This model is fully ready to run, and comes with a factory-installed PC
board meeting NMRA standards, so that it will be easy to install the DCC
decoder of your choice.
Similar in construction to the Freight Version, the Tourist Version of the
Galloping Goose comes with an alternate snow plow. This model operates on
standard-gauge track.