Beyer-Garratt 6029- a short comeback 2014-2016 

Yup! The brits sure could make steam locomotives!!!

UP MADE 14 BILLION $ IN 2019. A WONDERFUL RR.

Would be nice to see one of the heavy workhorses that was made to conquer saluda (NS).

In America when steam was being phased out some of them being cut up were 'BigBoys' of No more than ten--fifteen years old, barely run in, they were still in very good condition!!

Except for the fact that UP had to stop running their 4-6-6-4 Challenger because running both was (surprise surprise) too expensive.

@@michaelglinski3809 One is better than none.

Agree :-)

HughFromAlice

Larrikins54 i also am from the illawarra and would love to see it head down to kiama and nowra

You mean like the Big Boy is to the US or the Flying Scotsman is to the UK? Sorry, but Australia doesn't do that.

I remember seeing 6014 dance down the line at Cumnock about 80 metres from my grandmother's back fence one summer

No longer in Canberra. The museum went bankrupt.

I visited Dorrigo about 20 odd years ago, what I saw was an absolute discrace, I thought then somebody should step in and take all this and give it to some museum or society to preserve. I were taking photo's of the locos when this bloke came across the yard yelling his head off about me being on private property. The only other sign of life was someone on the roof of a carriage painting it with a paintbrush. they have I was told the only remaining silver city comet and it was hand painted. There is also a sherman tank there, what thats doing in a railway museum I'll never know. All the long gone railwaymen would turn over in their grave if they could see this mess cos thats all it was

That noise at start is largely because they open the cylinder cocks to blow out any water that may have built up while stationary, so you've got steam blasting out of the cylinders on what are effectively TWO engines, one in front and the other behind the boiler/cab in the middle. For its size and power the Garratt is a surprisingly 'quiet' engine from outside when running normally.

@Brian Thomas: that which you saw with "with three bobbles on its top" at 1:30 was the water tank, immediately behind the coal tender. At 2:19 the diesel loco was brought up the the position behind the coal tender. at 3:04, passenger carriages were placed behind the coal tender with two diesel locos at the rear of the train. 6:09 the announcer got it wrong. The Beyer-Garratt is an "articulated" loco, it has effectively two engines joined together. The part that carries the number 6029 on the front is effectively the second engine, though how it is fueled is beyond my meagre understanding of steam loco engines. This video is made up from several clips, some shot on the same day and some shot on other days.

boys today only care about fortnite or whatever the fuck can entertain their 5 second memory span

EeBee51 the 6029 is staying in canberra now.. as the museum is up and running again.. but the old gal is having repairs before she heads out on full steam

That's a relief :)

It must never get to dorrigo he already has 2 which will never run again by look of his sad effort so far

this collection should be broken up and given to the likes of Thirlmere ect.The location is far to remote,even in the large cities finding enough volounteers to maintain a collection as large as this would be a problem. Its sad but its true

Bryan, this was it's first run after recommissioning from overhaul, and the 44 was an insurance policy in case of failure. In other scenes the diesel on the rear allows the diesel to pull the returning out and back shuttle runs when the steamer cannot be turned or run around the train due to timetabling restraints, or a lack of rail infrastructure.

"the 44 was an insurance policy in case of failure" Thank you for explaining!

Sadly we cannot go back, more’s the pity!

It is indeed Sir.

Great chime whistle on 6029-any details?

The only figure I can find for you is a tractive effort of 63000lb. What that relates to in horsepower, I'm sorry that I'm unable to help you Dallas. Much less than the US titans.

Thank ,s for trying my friend but I still love the old steam trains I was brought up with them and I would live to see a double header Beyer Garratt pulling the old Sunlander wagons from Brisbane to Cairns I think that it would be awesome

As was said, 63,000 lbs compared to around 135,000 lbs. The Big Boy and others of similar ilk had boilers and cylinders twice the size of a 60 class and just as importantly, twice the weight. A 60 weighs 264 tons while a Big Boy weighs 535 tons. That said, the 60 is the biggest loco of any description to ever run outside of North America (maybe just the US, don't know too much about Canadian steam).

@@davidrayner9832 Not the most powerful, 59 class of east Africa. 83000 lbs tractive effort

@@nigelslade5276 I know that and I've always wondered why? How did they get an extra 20,000 lbs out of the 59?

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