Broadway Limited BLI-7393, HO Scale Brass Hybrid ATSF Blue Goose 4-6-4, Stealth - Std. DC, No Sound, DCC Ready, #3460 1941 Appearance

Model Features:

• Stealth Series - Model is DCC-Ready out of the box. No Sound.


• NOT equipped with smoke unit


• Out of the box, front and rear lights are directional. Other lights are ON with track power.


• Model comes with 8-ohm speaker installed for easy installation of DCC/Sound decoder.


• Precision Drive Mechanism engineered for continuous heavy load towing and smooth slow speed operation


• 5-Pole Can Motor with skew wound armature


• Handcrafted brass boiler, cab, and tender body, and heavy die cast chassis for increased tractive effort


• Premium Caliber Painting with authentic paint schemes


• Separately controllable headlight, numberboard lights, and cab light


• Factory-installed engineer and fireman Figures


• Many separately applied details such as handrails, grab irons, ladders, piping, cab glass, whistle, brass bell, and many others


• Equipped with rubber traction tires for increased pulling power


• Recommended Minimum Radius: 18 inches

Prototype & Model Overview:

The ATSF 3460 class consisted of six "Super Hudson" 4-6-4 steam locomotives built by Baldwin in 1937. One of those, #3460, was the Santa Fe's only streamlined locomotive. It was painted in a unique light blue and silver paint scheme and gained the name "Blue Goose". The Blue Goose was delivered to Shopton, Iowa in January 1938, and it pulled many of the Santa Fe's famed passenger trains until it was retired and scrapped in 1956.

In our first production run of the Blue Goose, we are offering two models of the early locomotive as it appeared in 1938 and four models of the locomotive as it appeared between 1939 and retirement. The only difference between the two 1938 models is the presence of the road number "3460" on the side of the tender. Each of our four post-1938 model has a unique paint scheme, prototypically accurate for a specific time frame. The most visible detail differences between the early and late Blue Goose versions are the removal of the full skirts and the addition of the scissor smokestack and associated equipment.

All of the models have hand-crafted brass boilers, cabs, and tender bodies, and die cast locomotive and tender chassis. These are No-Sound / DCC-Ready models that operate on DC out of the box, or a modeler can easily install their DCC decoder of choice. Out of the box, front and rear lights are directional, and other lights are always ON with track power. Note that some light functions may be missing depending on the aftermarket decoder the modeler installs.