Video Time!!!!!!
Well, the only left is to post the Video...It will start off with us Riding in the back of #7, next I will catch a couple of Run-By's of #7, #2, and #6 at the Water Tank, then it's time for our Cab Ride! in #2, Lisa and I will then go inside the museum and down into the basement for the Galloping Goose historical displays, and lastly we head back out to catch a couple of more Run-By's at the entrance. Enjoy!
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Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
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Historical Documents
As we board RGS #7 for a ride in the back-end I found a few historical documents in frames near the rear door so I took a few shots to record their information.
Galloping Goose #2
... and last but not least is Galloping Goose #2
My all-time educational film was in 7th grade around 1958 at St.Catherine grade school just outside Reading PA.. The nun led our class to the "visual aids room" for a film she said was "about nickel plating" . Now Reading then was a hardware center (my family owned Penn Hardware and closed the plant in 1954) and as a kid I was intensely interested in, and with my father and his friends visited nearly every factory in town including the Reading "Compny" shops. I knew from nickel-plating.
So get this: the film was about and maybe have been titled "Fast Freight on the Nickel Plate". Berks and mikes and GP7s all over the place. Needless to say, I was enthralled and so were several classmates, many of whose dads worked for the Reading. I guess the nickel platers' kids were disappointed..
I wish I could time-machine my way back to that time and hang out at Outer Station (all day) or Franklin Street. Go with Ronnie Reddy and his RR dad to see the last 15 T-1s by the coaling tower and turntable pre-Rambles or the Modena scrapyard. Hop a Belt Line freight around town to the fairgrounds and generally trespass and talk with the employees a lot. The employees told us to forget about railroading because the industry was dying!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder what educational films came out of Altoona, Sayre, Colomie, Horning, Eddystone, Schenectady, Lima, Patterson, etc. Not to mention...........
Rick
rixflix aka Captain Video. Blessed be Jean Shepherd and all His works!!! Hooray for 1939, the all time movie year!!! I took that ride on the Reading but my Baby caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride.
That's a great story Carl; THANKS! for sharing that...
Galloping Goose #7
Galloping Goose #6 is shown above and here is Galloping Goose #7
I first heard about the Galloping Geese back in junior high school, when some friends and I went to a presentation by Stan Midgley (1913-2000) in the local Kiwanis Travel and Adventure series. He had a lot of footage of these creatures running on the RGS, and told of their demise.
(Now there's a bygone era for you...well, yeah, the Galloping Geese, too, but I'm talking about those guys who went from town to town with their movie films of exotic places. These shows lasted for a couple of hours, roughly, and were held, in my case, in the high-school auditoriums. They were always educational, but, especially with Stan Midgley, there were a few ROFL moments as well.
There was a thread on this forum back in 2005 that asked whether his footage was still available in some form. Haven't heard anything positive since. I'm not a big purchaser of visual media, but would definitely make an exception if some of this stuff could be found!)
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
It was a cool and snowy day; but, that didn't stop Lisa and I from attending the CRRM "Goosefest" where they had #2, #6, and #7 running. We took a ride in the back of #7 and a Cab Ride in #2. Lots and Lots of video taken!!!!!!!
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