GMAM 4128 climbs Montagu Pass solo with heavy passenger train - March 2002 

Put myself through varsity as a stoker. Occasionally worked on GMAM's out of Pietermaritzburg. Amazing engines.

Gotta love big South African steam. Thanks for posting. Two big thumbs up!

Garratts make a distinctive sound.

My old dad built the boilers on most of these Garratts,I still live 500 yards from Beyer Peacocks old site.Brings back many childhood memories.

Morning thanx it is so beautiful

Yes it brings back memories for me

What a locomotive. Like a horse on rails

Jouw filmpjes zijn mooi als altijd, dikke duim omhoog van een Garrat fan uit Nederland, baie dankie Trevor. (Ook voor je andere filmpje met de GO op de Caledon lijn, vet geniet was dat)

Did this in 2000, an unforgettable experience. The Garratt was a bit sick on the pass and we had a banker. (19D?) Stood in the grass at Camfer for a run by, to overhear two passers by discuss Cape Cobras - Oh-Oh! Dreadfully sick at Oudshoorn, after eating an Ostrich steak with prawn sauce. Prawn sauce a bad idea in the desert... Missed the whole of the next day while lying in our compartment with my eyes closed. Lunch in Protea, the restaurant car, was always wonderful. Stood on a rock at the red wall and saw a short, fat snake skin at my feet... Told it was probably from a Puff Adder. How long have you got if you get bitten? About an hour. Is there any serum on the train, miles from anywhere? Er, no, so don't step on one. What a great trip! I wonder if this beautiful stock (pre-war blue train?) still survives?

Oh my WORD! Just LISTEN to those double-beats as she claws her way up the pass - WHAT a locomotive the GMAM/GAMMAT/KRAP (CRAB) was in its day....

I wish I could have done this

Great sound effects

I love this steam locomotive model

I see they're running it technically 'backwards'. I remember reading they did this with the Garratts in NSW Australia as a way of making conditions in the cab cooler and with reduced smoke, especially through tunnels, so much so that some were fitted with dual controls so the engineer could face the direction of travel no matter how they were running. Did they do this on the SA ones at all? We still have 6029 running here in NSW. An impressive sight, too, very similar although 6029 was one of the so-called super Garratts here that had some modifications made that resulted in even more power. Also has a mechanical fireman and some other 'modern' features for a steam engine, although that makes the cab surprisingly noisy when operating.

Okay, At one point I owned a HO set of this train. I knew that it was from SA, but I did know what train it was. Now I understand why it did go for such crazy price when I sold.

Great stuff

Wonderful

Most unusual looking locomotive the bayer garratt, very powerful loco basically it is two loco,s in one.

Excellent photography.Is it a metregauge.

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How do people BREATHE in that tunnel with all that smoke??

Baie daar gery toe ek in George skool gegaan het. Verlang nou sommer

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4128 baie op haar gewerk saam met Piet Steyn 1974 baie goed gestoom

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I'm... confused. Is it going forwards or backwards?

Nog altyd gese: Garratts vat nie nonsense nie.

I'm pretty sure that's diesel smoke not Cole

Poor passengers when they were in the tunnel.

WhAT A FANTATIC HERITAGE. This could have been a major tourist attrction. Thanks to the ANC's incompotance we have nothing - nothing at all. What a shame that these and other reminders of the past fell into the hands of total incompotance and don't care. Shame on you Nelson and your cronies

A lone sar class 34 or 37 would have outperformed this GMAM garratt. As these giants aged they seemed to lose much of their pulling power. (2022.03.18-17:39-socalled South Africa)

can someone explain this set up to me ? the loco looks reversed, and what's that added thing up front? sorry, just recently took a liking to old steam trains so i don't know proper terminology lol

2:01 CO2 for you too.

Only thing more impressive would have been 2 or even 3 of those beasts together. :-)

All that black smoke shows incomplete combustion - i.e. not enough air or too much coal. Looks like poor firing. A beautiful sight otherwise.

Gaswagen.