Where the Geese Wear Pants

     Since the Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad crew works on improving the railroad on Saturdays, there is not much time for me to update my posts on Saturday nights.  Because of this, I am now going to post updates of the current events of the railroad on Sundays.  To finish off the second post for this week though, I am going to give a bit of history on the name of the railroad. 
        
     When ever the crew of the Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad talk about where they work, they typically say "the Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad Where the Geese Wear Pants." 

    

Picture taken by Andrew Ottinger    

     So, why is this the place where the geese wear pants and where does Bucksgahuda come from?  "In Germany, where both the founding Bauer family and Otto came from, parents told their children a fairy tale of “Bucksgahuda”. If the children didn’t mind their flock of geese and do their chores, the story goes, a giant gander would swoop down and cart them off to another place. In this place, the gander would turn the children into baby geese, still wearing their little boy knickers, who never grow up. Our Bucksgahuda is the place where the little trains never grow up."

Story told by William Bauer

 

     Along with the trains, the crew working at the Bucksgahuda and Western Railroad have never really grown up either.  They just got bigger toys.   

 

Picture by Mitchell Smithbauer