AHM Santa Fe "Blue Goose" Six-Coach Passenger Set

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's 3460 class comprised six 4-6-4 "Hudson" type steam locomotives built in 1937 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for service between La Junta, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois, a fairly flat division of the railroad suited for the 4-6-4 type. The first locomotive, #3460, was built streamlined; painted light, robin's egg blue and silver, it became known as the "Blue Goose". It was the Santa Fe's only streamlined steam locomotive, featuring extensively in railroad publicity and, often depending on whether it was (rarely) clean or dirty was, never-the-less, a rail fan favorite. It was eventually scrapped in 1956. Only one of this class survives, #3463, on static display on the grounds to the Southeast of the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka, Kansas.

Rivarossi produced the "Blue Goose" continuously from 1976 to 1994.

FEATURES:

• Stunning C-9 Mint Condition with Excellent Original Box.
• Test Track run time only.
• MRRHQ Locomotive Works serviced, tested and certified.
• Upgraded with MRRHQ Custom High Performance Always-On LED Operating Headlamp.
• Upgraded with MRRHQ Factory Quality Directional LED Back-up Light.
• 12 Wheel Long Haul Tender.
• One-piece locomotive and tender bodies of pressure-cast high impact plastic.
• Baker Valve Gear w/steel main and side rods, guides, hand rails and fittings.
• Many additional fine details.
• Powerful can motor w/sealed gearbox.
• Scale 79" Drivers.
• Easy rolling steel needle point truck axles.
• Upgraded with rear Knuckle Coupler.
• Optional Upgrades Available:
  • SOUNDTRAXX 852204 Standard DCC Decoder Installed.
  • SOUNDTRAXX 852204 Standard DCC Decoder w/810160 Keep Alive Installed..
  • SOUNDTRAXX TSU1100 Digital DCC/Sound Decoder Installed.
  • SOUNDTRAXX TSU1100 Digital DCC/Sound Decoder w/810160 Keep Alive Installed.
• Made in Italy by Rivarossi. Production Year 1979.

Dimensions: Locomotive 8" L x 2 1/4" T x 1 1/2" W Tender 5 3/4" L x 2" T x 1 1/2" W

The Coaches:

Rivarossi produced the coaches offered here under their own name and for both AHM and IHC. As far as we can tell, all versions were cosmetically identical and all are very hard to find. Just as the "Blue Goose" itself was controversial, as the Santa Fe only produced two coaches in the robin's egg blue and silver color scheme, so are the model coaches themselves. In any case, stickler for accuracy or not, it cannot be argued that the coaches included in this set are some of the most beautiful ever produced.

Stunning Mint Condition w/Mint Original Boxes

• AHM 6402 SF 1930 85" Observation Coach #3241.

• AHM 6403 SF 1930 72" R.P.O. Coach #3403.
• AHM 6404 SF 1930 85' SF Coach #3119.
• AHM 6405 SF 85" Vista Dome Coach #506.
• AHM 6406 SF 1930 "Blue Moon" Duplex Sleeper Coach #215.
• AHM 6407 SF 1930 Smooth Side Baggage Coach #3431. (With Front Knuckle Coupler)

HO Scale 1/87