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Reply to "Santa Fe 3460 class, any freight use?"

Hot Water posted:
Lou1985 posted:

In the early 1950s when Santa Fe was able to dieselize all its passenger trains what happened to the 3460 class 4-6-4s (including the "Blue Goose")? Were they dead lined/scrapped immediately or were they put into freight use on the eastern lines? I can't seem to find any pictures of 3460 class locomotives in freight use. I'd expect the 3460 wasn't used to haul freight (Blue Goose) but I would assume the other 5, non-streamlined, locomotives in the class were. Maybe hot shot refrigerator or boxcar trains?

They had 84" diameter drive wheels, and where pretty "slippery", thus not much good for freight service. 

That makes sense. Were they just stored and then scrapped? The 4-8-4s saw lots of freight use but that makes sense. 4-6-4s weren't much suited to that kind of use. 

I'd like to eventually pick up a late Santa Fe steam locomotive for freight use on my layout but a 2900 class 4-8-4 might be too large for my layout, hence why I was wondering about the 3460 class, since it would work if it was prototypical. 

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