Hello guys, one of my favorite engines is the #3460 SF Blue Goose but it seems nearly impossible finding a color shot of it.
Can someone lead me to a website or to a past issue of trains or Classic trains or any other magizine or book that may contain elusive color photos?
I've seen the only one color shot of the Goose in a Morning Sun book passing under a bridge of sorts but that photo seems to be doctored, colored in not actual..
Thanks
Joe
threerailnut wrote: Hello guys, one of my favorite engines is the #3460 SF Blue Goose but it seems nearly impossible finding a color shot of it.Can someone lead me to a website or to a past issue of trains or Classic trains or any other magizine or book that may contain elusive color photos? I've seen the only one color shot of the Goose in a Morning Sun book passing under a bridge of sorts but that photo seems to be doctored, colored in not actual..ThanksJoe
Joe: Welcome to the forum. I went back and found the article I had recently read, thinking it had a color photo. Unfortuneately, they're all black and white. It's an article in the June,1985 Trains Magazine, by Looyd E. Stanger. What made me think there was a color picture, is the cover, which is a drawing (painting?)of 3460, in blue/gray color.
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Thanks guys. MY guess is very few actual color photos of the blue goose exist.
I'm wondering if Kalmbach has a color shot in their vast library of older steam photos.
I'd be interested in seeing it..
Maybe someone from classic trains magizine could post it here?
Probably would make a future issue very interesting.
BTW, when they were actually running they were called "BlueBirds". In about 1949 Baldwin sent around a diesel demonstrator in a blue/gray paintscheme that got the nickname "The Blue Goose". Somehow that name migrated to the ATSF steam engines retroactively. But that happens in history, there are a lot of 'famous' people whose names in the history books aren't the same as what they were called during their lifetimes.
p.s. Video Rails has a video with a shot of one of these engines (in color). Beleive it was called "Streamliners of Yesteryear". Virtually all color film from about 1936-42.
wjstix wrote: BTW, when they were actually running they were called "BlueBirds". In about 1949 Baldwin sent around a diesel demonstrator in a blue/gray paintscheme that got the nickname "The Blue Goose". Somehow that name migrated to the ATSF steam engines retroactively. But that happens in history, there are a lot of 'famous' people whose names in the history books aren't the same as what they were called during their lifetimes. p.s. Video Rails has a video with a shot of one of these engines (in color). Beleive it was called "Streamliners of Yesteryear". Virtually all color film from about 1936-42.
LOL, thanks I'll check that out. the last time someone directed me to a video having the "blue goose", I believe it was video called "Glory machines" I watched but missed it three times before having to watch it again in slow motion just to see the goose in a B/W 3 second clip racing by at 90mph in a shabby end of life condition.
I'm looking for a color photo in its initial as built state before its lower shrouding was removed.
BTW, there was only one Blue Goose, the SF#3460. ATSF had no other engine shrouded and streamlined in their steam roster.
The only other "Blue Goose" of which I'm familiar is the Westinghouse gas-turbine locomotive. It was housed in a carbody similar to a shark-nose, so this may explain why some see it as a Baldwin demonstrator.
I remember reading in an old copy of RAILROAD Magazine that ATSF 3460 was also referred to as "Mae West" for its curvaceous styling.
The one I was referring to was the demonstrator for the Baldwin centercabs - the ones that were basically two engines back-to-back with one cab in the middle.
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