Re: Goose 5 derail

Earl Wrote:
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> Years ago there was a small paperback book put out
> by the Dolores newspaper

"The Galloping Goose" by Charles m Engel, Dolores Star, 1969
sold for $1 back in the day.

> on #5

Well, all the geese really

> that had a pic of
> the same wreck, but taken from trackside.

The one on page 7 you mean? Could be. It's a 3-truck goose and the relationship to the river & track is the same. hard to be sure with the reverse angle.

>My
> guess would be the nice cliff there sent a rock
> down on the track and #5 clobbered and laid over.

Well, assuming it is the same wreck in both pictures, there doesn't look to be anything wrong with the track so I think Earl is probably right.

btw, no further data on this wreck in the booklet excpt that Oral Lutener, formerly of Rico, is standing on the side of the cab in the shot in the booklet.

hank