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 Post subject: Re: Galloping Goose # 8 - Replica?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 6:17 pm 

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J3a-614 wrote:
Other Auto-Railer material:

Scroll down to see an apparent freight train version:

http://hankstruckforum.com/htforum/index.php?topic=57125.0
I recall that several years ago there was a What the Bloody 'ell is it? picture posted here -
http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26424&p=119069&hilit=rubber+tired#p119069 - showing what appeared to be a rubber-tired locomotive. Some of the speculation was that it was an Evans product. For those of you who have memories as long as mine I direct your attention to the upper left corner of the advertisement referenced in Brother 614's post.

Having gone through several pages of old posts to find the reference, I also found several references to railroad equipment mounted on semi-permanently on trailers. I recall a trip to the combined AREMA and RSA exposition in Chicago many years ago and encountering the body of a BN wide vision caboose mounted to a lowboy and towed by a railroad owned tractor. The story I heard was that the president of a significant shortline had purchased the car from BN to use as a hunting cabin, but had somehow been talked into mounting it on the trailer as an air brake instruction car, er RV. Without the trucks and brake rigging and mounted to the deck of the trailer it was not considered an oversize load. Now imagine that the trailer was based on the Luttig Low-Railer...

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 Post subject: Re: Galloping Goose # 8 - Replica?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 12:21 am 

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Sorry to dig up an old thread, but the Goose in Cortez has dissapeared as of yesterday. I've seen it a number of times driving back and forth through Cortez and was wondering if anyone knew it's disposition?

Thanks

MS

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