Conda Bus (“The Galloping Goose”)
Soda Springs, Caribou County

Location: Corrigan Park, Highway 30, Soda Springs, Idaho 83276

The town of Conda was built in 1920 by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company to house the miners and their families engaged in the Company’s new phosphate ore mining operations about eight miles north of Soda springs. The company also built a railroad to Soda Springs that connected with the Union Pacific Line to ship their products. The Conda Bus was a motorized railroad passenger coach that ran between the two towns. It was used from 1922 to 1936 until more modern forms of transportation and good roads became available. The bus remained at Conda until 1960, when the new mine owner, J.R. Simplot, gave the bus to Willard and Betty Poulsen, Soda Springs residents who had lived in Conda. The Poulsens gifted the bus to the City of Soda Springs in 1982 and it was put in Corrigan Park and later restored. The town of Conda no longer exists.