I'd love a N scale version of this. plastic please, I hate to pay for brass. Mr. MicroAce? Mr. Kato? http://www.mirai.ne.jp/~eurocity/english/egarratt.html I saw this cool and unique looking steamer on a discovery show I recorded this last weekend.
The Garratt was an incredible locomotive. Some are still in use today in parts of South Africa & Southern Rhodesia...ooops, Zimbabwe. There are some Garratts even larger than the one in your photos. Quite a fine piece of machinery. Cam
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Kozmo: Kato and Micro-Ace aren't going to make that steamer anytime soon. I would like to see Kato release another American steam loco. That also isn't going to happen. Stay cool and run steam.....
Kozmo, I for one would buy, even brass, a GMAM. However, they are (a) narrow gauge, which limits the market, and (b) fairly obscure, limiting the market even further. I grew up around them and always used to think of them as "second class" locos, because they would only serve the rural (read backwards) areas, while the sexy Class 25's (heavy mountains) would run the mainline hotshots. Just goes to show how wrong we can be! The construction would make it very easy to do DCC and sound, because you have lots of space inside.
Discovery Science channel Extreme Machines - Monster Trains Travel on some of the most spectacular railways in the world and meet the passengers, engineers and historians who have searched the rails for the ultimate train journey. being repeated: On Air (et): APR 08 2006 @ 07:00 PM APR 09 2006 @ 02:00 AM here is a link: http://science.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=7&cpi=50239&gid=0&channel=SCI Lots of cool stuff on it: 1) African Garratt Steam locomotive 2) A Steam railway in India 3) Early American western railways 4) Chesapeake & Ohio's 4-8-4 of 1948, No. 614 they say the last steam locomotive built in the USA. 5) a brit music producer that worked with Paul McCartney, Moody Blues, etc but loves trains and works to restore old ones. there was another eppisode a couple months back too had the Union Pac. 4-6-6-4 challenger, and some narrow guage, etc. that was from like January. I have them all saved on the DVR along with most of the 1/2 episodes of "working on the railroad".
And then there is RFD carried on the satelite channels which has a Trains show every Monday evening at 6 PM Eastern Time. Last Monday it was the South African Garretts both standard and narrow gauge. Yesterday evening it was Australian steam. Doubleheaded 4-6-2s running side by side with double headed 4-6-4s on the next track at speed.
nice! Hopefully soon you will be able to download all these shows from the internet or whatever and watch them. I hate that this sat. system has these shows/channels, that cable system has this and that. just make shows and put them out there for me to grab & watch when I want.
If a TV show said: I would not trust anything said on the show. Not only was this not the last, it missed by half a decade. The last steam locomotive built in the USA for a major USA railroad was an 0-8-0 built by the Roanoke Shops of the N&W in December 1953. Alco ceased building steam for US railroads in 1948, and Baldwin and Lima ceased building same in 1949, but Baldwin at least continued to build export steam locomotives into the 1950's. The last standard gauge steam locomotives built in the USA are the "Jupiter" and "No. 119" used by the National Park Service at Promontory Point, UT. They were built sometime in the 1980's IIRC.
I would not trust anything said on the show. Not only was this not the last, it missed by half a decade. The last steam locomotive built in the USA for a major USA railroad was an 0-8-0 built by the Roanoke Shops of the N&W in December 1953. Alco ceased building steam for US railroads in 1948, and Baldwin and Lima ceased building same in 1949, but Baldwin at least continued to build export steam locomotives into the 1950's. The last standard gauge steam locomotives built in the USA are the "Jupiter" and "No. 119" used by the National Park Service at Promontory Point, UT. They were built sometime in the 1980's IIRC. </font>[/QUOTE]well, might be getting picky and such, but I think they meant the last steam built for regular US service maybe? i don't know. I have no reason to defend them, they coudl be totaly wrong. the other show last January said the UP challenger 4-6-6-4 was the largest steamer built. well, what about the 4-8-8-4? and largest in size? driver size? pulling power? boiler size? Reguardless of what they say, I loved what I saw and heard! heard as in the sounds of the locomotives.
HO Scale get's all the nice steam http://eureka.m.bigpondhosting.com/Garratt.html HO scale - Japan mfg? HO http://www.djhmodelloco.co.uk/ho-gauge.asp?Country=Rest%20of%20World
The 614 was not even the last steam locomotive built for the Chesapeake & Ohio! Baldwin built several 2-6-6-2's like the Bachmann model for the C&O in 1949, its last domestic steam. Lima was building 2-8-4's into 1949 for both the L&N and NKP. The N&W continued to build 2-8-8-2's and 4-8-4's into 1950, and ended with 0-8-0's in 1953. These big 0-8-0's were used as road power on local freights as well as switch engines. My point is "don't believe anything a TV show says about railroads". A TV reporter recently said on the air "The engineer did not attempt to swerve to avoid the collision".
They also said that compared to teh other makers, baldwin, etc, Lima built the Cadillac of steam trains.
