Rio Grande Southern Motor #6. One of the lesser-known members of the Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose family is this little critter, which currently resides at the Colorado Railroad Muse... (more)

Out for a late-summer stroll. In the pretty light of a late August afternoon, RGS Motor #5 glides down the 4% grade just below Cumbres Pass, approaching the Highway 17 crossing at Coxo, Col... (more)

On the pass at Lizard Head. Although I attend numerous historic re-creation events every year, the vast majority of the photos we take still have pretty obvious clues in them that they were... (more)

We don't need water today. Rio Grande Southern Motor #5 (aka "Galloping Goose") rumbles past the water column adjacent to the section house on the 10,015 ft. high Cumbres Pass (MP 330.7) du... (more)

"Came a mighty strange contraption known to trainmen as a motor". The lyrics of Colorado story-teller Bill Fries' (aka C.W. McCall) 1970s song "Gallopin' Goose" come to ... (more)

The Ford and the Pierce-Arrow. Back in the Chama Yard, all of the equipment from the C&TS 2016 Narrow Gauge Rendezvous event is safely off the mountain. A few photographers hang around fo... (more)

Last minute maintenance. Here's an RGS mechanic attempting to troubleshoot a problem with Motor #5, as her Motorman waits impatiently in the cab. The #5 machine originally had a Pierce-Ar... (more)

A pair of Geese fly over Cascade Creek. Running together in open country for the first time in decades, RGS Motors #5 and 7 tip-toe across the 408 ft. long deck-plate girder bridge, that to... (more)

A grand old Goose spreads her wings. After decades running in circles at her home in the Colorado Railroad Museum, RGS Motor #7, one of the Rio Grande Southern's fabled Galloping Geese, get... (more)

Northbound Goose. Rio Grande Southern Motor Number 5, one of the famous Galloping Geese, cruises through the Rockwood Cut on a northbound run toward Cascade Canyon during Railfest 2011. G... (more)

The Ghost Town & Calico Railroad's restored Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose awaits the next weekday, when lower crowds see it being substituted for the steam train. This is one of the original... (more)

Galloping Goose! Having just turned on the wye, the former RGS Motor #5, aka "Galloping Goose #5", backs slowly into the Silverton Depot at the end of a late afternoon excursion on the Dura... (more)