Wonderful footage of the 6029 working in Australia in modern times, especially after watching some of your epic action videos of the Garratts working in beautiful southern Africa. You seem to certainly find the right spots for filming.
Wonderful. I was just wondering how tube cleaning was managed on big Garratts? I mean access to the tubes from the leading engine must have been a bit difficult🤔
In the 1940's, as a five year old, I used to lie in bed and listen to these engines as they tried to pull a long group of cars. You would hear the chug-chug, and occasionally a rapid chug-chug-chug, as the engine wheels slipped on the tracks.
Nothing like a 60 class at full lope was so happy when i heard they were restoring her. Anyone know if 3801 is still active as I havent heard anything on her in years and it is well past her test time to remain on line with the boiler testing required around every 10 years or so?
The AD60 is an incredible loco! And 3801 has been out quite a bit over the past year. I have a few videos of the green bullet from April 2021 when she visited Albury.
My fave loco but just recently, I've watched a few clips on American's impressions of Australia and one of them commented on how many times they'd heard biggest/fastest/tallest/longest in the southern hemisphere. They then pointed out that the southern hemisphere consists of South America (a shit hole), the southern half of Africa (a shit hole) a few Pacific islands, and Australia. You get the drift.
It's sad to hear that you think those places are shit holes. In any case Southern Africa had a number of locos more powerful than the 60 Class and on narrow gauge. Most impressive machines, even more so for operating in apparent shit hole countries.
@@davidrayner9832 ah right, sorry for the misunderstanding. Yep the African locos were impressive. The Red Devil is scheduled to run again this winter!
