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2018 Goose Chase
2018-09-24 "Shake Down"
2018 Doloris RGS Station - UnLoading
2016 September 26 'Wild Goose Chase' & Fall Colors
Friends along the Right of Way
2016 Geese #5 & #7 + #315 Wednesday, August 24
2016 Geese #5 & #7 + #315 Thursday, August 25
2016 Geese #5 & #7 + #315 Friday, August 26
2016 Geese #5 & #7 + #315 Saturday, August 27
2016 Geese #5 & #7 + #315 Sunday, August 28
1972 RGS Country Trip
1977 RGS Country Road Trip
2009 Galloping Goose #5 around Chama, NM
2012 Galloping Goose #5 Trip
2012 A Goose in Fall Colors
2012 Care and Feeding a Goose
2013 Rio Grande Southern Motor #1
2013 A Goose in Sun, Rain & Snow
2014-08-14 RGS #5 Durango to Silverton
2014-10-02 Goose with a Broken Wing
2014-10-04 Geese on the Run
2014 Larry Spencer retires as Motorman
Group Shots
2015-09-29 Chama UnLoad & ShakeDown
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Inside the cab of Goose #7
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Notice the 'suicide doors' on Goose #7
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Al Blount, Colorado Railroad Museum VP Board of Trustees, was our Motorman.
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Seating behind Al is Rick - Colorado Railroad Museum volunteer.
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Lobato Trestle
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Goose #5 has stopped at Cresco, and is waiting for us.
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Ladies in Waiting
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Goose #7 passes the most photographed pond on the C&TS
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#5's turn
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Walking back to the 'Geese' after the run by.
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Windy Point from Goose #7
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Goose #5 in the distance rounding Windy Point
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Arriving at Cumbres Pass (10,040 feet).
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Bill Wolf sticks his head out of #5, while Joe Beringer, John Randall, and Lew Matis discuss important matters.
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Lew Matis flags the road crossing as I now photograph from the back of Goose #5
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We are approaching Tanglefoot Curve
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The majority of goosefans disembark on the upper lever, allow the geese to run down the curve for us to photograph.
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Cowboys herding cattle near Los Pinos water tank
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I have never seen so many hawks along the right-of-way as of this year.
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432' long Cascade Trestle as seen from the back door of Goose #5
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Osier, Colorado, in the distance.
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The Geese arrived before both Eastbound Train #216 and Westbound Train #215
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Goose #7 appears to be on someone's model railroad
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Now westbound as we leave Osier, CO
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Train #316 can be seen in the distance while her passengers enjoy a great dinner of turkey, with salad and dessert.
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A runby of both Geese on Cascade Trestle
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Motorman Bill Wolf at the controls, while Joe Beringer rides shotgun.
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We radioed Goose to stop on the trestle so we could photograph #7, while they in #7 photographed us in #5
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More hawks
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Coming up Tanglefoot Curve
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We ran into rain as we approached 'the pass'.
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Departing Cumbres Pass in #5
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