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4to. 82 pp. With photo illustrations, maps, text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers, NF copy, w/ laid-in timetables and excursion brochures for the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. First edition of this fascinating history of the famed narrow gauge railroad connecting Colorado & New Mexico over rugged twisting route terrain, which adopted the use of modifying Buick & Pierce Arrow Touring Cars and Limousines into one-man operator vehicles to carry passengers and mail along the route. These curious automobile/locomotive hybrids could be fitted with snowplows, rotary snowplows, cow catchers, and eventually were sheathed in aluminum and dubbed the Galloping Geese of the RGS.…