Of the entire 3460 class besides, only 3463 survives today but she never had the AfterĪ long and fruitful career and being a railfan favorite for many years, 3460 was finally scrapped in 1956. Many of the famed Santa Fe named passenger trains including the "Chief," "Grand Canyon Limited" and even the "Super Chief" on occasion whenever the usual diesel engines were out of service. 3460 was built in 1937 by BaldwinĪs the first of several 3460 Class 4-6-4 steam locomotives, she however was the only one to receive streamline casing, and painted in a unique light robin's egg blue livery, with a silver line inģ460 first set the world record for the longest distance traveled by a steam engine in 1938, running between Los Angeles, CA to Chicago, IL without stopping or maintenance. Whilst many US railroads during the 1930's enjoyed the glamour of their streamlined steam locomotives, Santa Fe had but one streamlined 4-6-4 steam locomotive. (As of now, there is no model of the SantaĪTSF 3460 CLASS 4-6-4 "BLUE GOOSE" STEAM LOCOMOTIVE This whistlesound was copied from the "Death Valley Days" episode, "Death Valley Scotty," which used 1010 in live steam for the The 1010 now rests in the former Southern Pacific shops at Sacramento, CA, which is currently being refurbished into a museum. It ran between LA and Chicago in less than 44 hours and 54 minutes.ġ010 continued pulling fast-track passenger trains until her retirement in February 1955, when she helped to recreate the "Scott Special" for some segments in an episode of "Death Valley Days." The train was commissioned by Death Valley Scotty to break the world record at the time for the fastest train in the US. She was famous for pulling the fabled "Death ValleyĬoyote" (otherwise known as the "Scott Special") on the Needles-Seligman section of the ATSF mainline. Santa Fe 1010 is one of the 1000 Class 2-6-2 "Prairie" type steam locomotives built in 1901 for the Santa Fe Railway. Lasted until 1996 when it merged with the Burlington Northern Railway to become the BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe), and much of its former trackage is still used to this very day. Railroads, with many famous trains such as the Super Chief, California Limited, Grand Canyon Limited, and the Southwestern Chief, which to this day is still operated by Amtrak. Despite that, the Santa Fe has become one of the US's most memorable Through many subsidiary railroads and leases to use otherĬompany's track, they finally made it to LA by 1887, but never actually reached the town of Santa Fe except by a branchline. Santa Fe, New Mexico, the railroad had high hopes of one day expanding to the coast at Los Angeles or San Francisco, California. Starting out in 1859, with the aim of connecting the towns of Atchison and Topeka, Kansas to
Of over 9,269.20 miles of railroad trackage all over the American west and mid-west. One of the largest railroads in the United States, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway ran between Los Angeles, CA and Chicago, IL, at the height of their reign they had a total
ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY (LATER BNSF)
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