Press Space For all costumes The "Goat" was built in 1875 for the Alpinista & Western railroad as its number 5. It was used as a switch engine in alpinsta yard and would run short trains. in the winter of 1879, she was equipped with a snowplow and would double head the trains as 2 towns west of alpinsta. in 1893 she went into the back shop where she converted to oil and got an acyletrene headlight along with knuckle couplers. she would as be repainted black with a simpler paint scheme along with a new capped stack. then in 1910, she went into the back shop again received a new less fancy stack and even simpler paint. At the time the railroad was closing unnecessary lines and ridding useless items seeing as 5 was a good engine she was put on local freights out of alpinsta the in 1931 a preservation group acquired the engine and loaned to a movie set where it was dressed up as a union pacific engine with a new stack, headlight and paint. A G scale replica was made for the movie climactic crash scene in which the main character realize a couple of bandits destroyed a bridge up ahead and he is running a train of gold. he uncouples the engine hits the brakes an the cars and the engine flys off the bridge exploding the cars and the gold cars stop just in time. Of course, they could not crash the real engine so they crashed the g scale model. she immediately after filming was returned to her 1893 look and put on static display. In 1970 she was restored to operating order after 8 years of work running museum trains and some times doing other events. she has been operating on and off since then
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