Australia's Largest Steam Locomotive - Beyer-Garratt '6029' - In Bathurst 

I can only imagine how nice it wouldve been to see one of these beautiful locomotives in its heyday. I have never been in such awe of anything like it, i completely agree it overshadows everything!

Yes, I think the S.A. Ones were narrow gauge, correct me if I am wrong. They were still magnificent locomotives!

@@jamescrawford9883 Yes the Beyer Peacock 400 class are 3'6'' and carried ore from Broken Hill to Port Pirie. There's one at the Nat Rail Museum at Port Adelaide and one at Lithgow Zig Zag, both static

Im glad you enjoyed!

Garratt locos are bi-frontal in essence, so they have no need to use turntables

The garratt was incredible. I need to go see more steam locos in action more often

Its an absolute beast of a locomotive!

sadly no. Apparently there is something in the firebox that is "not correct" or some such, and thus the loco isn't allowed to run in SA. Stupid and bullshit really, but you get that unfortunately

Thank you! Its an iron beast for sure

Thank you! Its an impressive goliath

It probably runs on oil now judging by the oil tanker behind it, but back in the day in the UK we had two of these that ran coal and didn’t have mechanical stokers, the fireman used to have to shovel constantly at max speed to keep it fed on on hills it would use up nearly all its steam as the fireman just couldn’t shovel fast enough, they consumed vast amounts of coal. But they were very powerful.

@@justanotheryoutubechannel She's a coal burner, the tank car was carrying water (clean water in large volumes is few and far between on Australian railways now).