This 1953 Chrysler is a limousine on rails!

The Chrysler limousine is unlike any other known car. This is actually a rare example of a car on rails.

This amazing limousine it can be displayed in a museum dedicated to the wonders of the history of travel. From a distance, it looks like an overproduction Chrysler. But a closer look at the image of the car – shared on Reddit – shows that it sits in a mining landscape and runs on rails. And for good reason, it connected gypsum quarry, located in California, in civilization.

Chrysler in fact, it has nothing to do with the design of this railway car. It was the USG company that built this funny limousine in Plaster City in the 1950s Savethe US Gypsum company, operated a gypsum mine that was only connected to the processing plants of this mineral, managed by USG, rail particularly thin. No trains were small enough to operate on these railroads. USG then made its transportation from Chrysler vehicles.

The “Blue Goose” or “Plaster City Limo” Was a 1953 double-decker Chrysler that Transported Workers to the Quarry Only Accessible by Rail.
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The “Goose Blue”An amazing example from Chrysler on rails

For US Gypsum’s quarries to be used, USG needed proper transportation. to transport those minerals and employees. The car also had to deal with sand storms and desert heat. The company at that time had the idea of ​​making its transport from two Chrysler New Yorker of 1953.

He joined the two cars and extended their bodies to form a limousine on the rails, affectionately nicknamed. “Goose Blue” (“Goose Blue” in French). It was a real behemoth of more than Height 11 meterswith more counter weight than 2 700 kg. Like a train, “Goose Blue” it had controls at both ends. This specialty made it possible not to turn on the rail.

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An uncertain fate

Being a car from the 1950s and traveling on rails, one should not expect impressive speed while using it. This amazing Chrysler limousine had an engine that produced 160 horse power. This power enabled him to reach a speed of 65 km / h. It seems that “Goose Blue” he was still serving until the 1970s.

No one seems to know what happened to him today. Always according to Save, there is no longer a sign of this Chrysler limousine in Plaster City. Some sources claim that he was sent to the scrapyard. Others think that an individual could save it. In any case, it is obviously no longer available to the general public, which makes it so one of many secrets of automotive history.