NSWGR 6029 Beyer Peacock Garratt steam locomotive [AH016] 

As a five year old kid I used to nick off down to Liverpool station after school to watch the Garretts pounding their way through the station on heavy goods in the afternoons. Awe inspiring to say the least, the ground literally shook... I also remember talking to the driver of one when on a red signal when it stopped on the No. 1 station....that was 60 years ago now.

Worked on a number of Garratts as a Fitter at BMD Loco. Good to see 6029 still steaming.

It is interesting that 6029 and cohorts were called Super Garrets, Beyer Peacock had a relatively early paper design study called a Super Garret 2-6-6-2 + 2-6-6-2 (or should that be 2-6+6-2+2-6+6-2), in any case, 4 sets of driving wheels, now that would have been a beast. Looking at 6029 sometimes makes me angry, there are four of these in Australia, I would rather not think about two of them. If only we had a little more foresight, we could have a double-headed Garret in the Steam Fest race. As wonderful as they are, the livery of the QR Garretts is IMHO much better looking, the red just seems to suit these Locomotives. It appears we will not see the QR sole survivor in steam anytime soon, I missed my chances to ride on her when she was running excursions.

The phenonimal workhorses during the late 50's and 60's, along with the Baldwins, then oil fired.. Great images here hauling the huge coal loads around Fassifern / Newstan Colliery and the Hunter region. The vision of the leadup to the Hawkesbury River Bridge passing what used to be the original alignment to the former bridge, lots of history right there. One of them toppled on Tuggerah siding when I was at school and my dad, being a railway man, came home telling us so we rode our pushies to the sad scene near Tuggerah station.

Awesome Work and Amazing history. love these Garratt steam locomotives.

When you list the specs at the start, that's clearly a 4-8-2 + 2-8-4 garratt, so it isn't an AD60. It also looks like a much lighter locomotive. What is it? BTW: my favorites are the GM garratts of South African Railways.

3:53 what a sound!!

The illustration is a 4-6-2+2-6-4.

That's certainly not a 60 class whistle in the closing scene?????