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Tin feathers, wooden trestles and iron men: the Galloping Geese of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad.
[RAILROADS & AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL -- CUMBRES & TOLTEC]. RHINE, Stan.
Published by Colorado Railroad Museum, 2012]., [Golden, CO:, 2012
- First Edition
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller4to. 82 pp. With photo illustrations, maps, text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers, NF copy, w/ laid-in timetables and excursion brochures for the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. First edition of this fascinating history of the famed narrow gauge railroad connecting Colorado & New Mexico over rugged twist…ing route terrain, which adopted the use of modifying Buick & Pierce Arrow Touring Cars and Limousines into one-man operator vehicles to carry passengers and mail along the route. These curious automobile/locomotive hybrids could be fitted with snowplows, rotary snowplows, cow catchers, and eventually were sheathed in aluminum and dubbed the Galloping Geese of the RGS.