I was skimming my June MR on a break today and discovered a mistaken attribution. In the News & Products article on Con-Cor’s announcements of the Electroliner and Pierce-Arrow versions of its Galloping Goose models in HO, the building of the Geese is incorrectly attributed to the D&RGW.
While the D&RGW did financially control the Rio Grande Southern at certain points in its history, it was the RGS that built the Geese in order to reduce operating costs on its line from Durango to Ridgway.
I was also wondering about the mini review, as the Galloping Goose by Con-Cor has been out for several years, at least since 2003. I saw a few in Caboose Hobbies showcase in that year during the National Narrow Gauge Convention in Denver. A travelling companion got one for Christmas that year too. So why report on a model that’s been out for five years? If it is a reissue, the same question arises.
Wasn’t that first one N scale?
This one is HO scale.
I am by no means a goose expert, but I believe every one was fairly unique. So my first thought was that this was just one of the others. But if I read it right this one is a “standard gauge” version. Why, I have no idea. The last paragraph says an HOn3 version will also be produced.
Well the model my friend has is HO standard gauge, and he’s had it for several years; he had it running on his module at our club show in March. I believe the HOn3 model has been out for the same time.
The new Con-Cor Geese will represent the early versions that had the front, passenger part based on the Pierce-Arrow car. The mechanism will be virtually the same as the earlier release, but will not use the bus-type passenger body that the Geese were later converted to by the RGS. The bus body provided more passenger room up front. So this is a different, earlier version than the original Goose release.