Some of the following information was taken from a chapter in Golden Was The Past the stories continue… contributed by Dorothy Bond.
The Galloping Goose was a funny little streetcar-like contraption that ran up and down the Row River Valley on the railroad tracks. The Goose was either a remodeled boxcar or looked like one. It was built around 1915 and was powered by a gasoline engine and had 6 flanged wheels to hug the tracks. The goose featured windows all around, benches and a comfy pot-bellied stove.
The goose had 17,000 riders in 1917. It was used by farmers, housewives, miners and anyone else looking for a cheap way to and from town,. The entire trip cost one dollar and station to station was 5 cents. By the end of the 1920s the advent of the automobile meant retirement for the Goose. The old streetcar body became part of a farmhouse and the days of public transportation in the Row River Valley came to an end.