Thanks for your comment. I bought two new Bachman engines and tore them completely down to the chassis. Then I built up the new super Garratt on the chassis. Thanks
by the way would sell me a smaller american garratt for under 800 bucks or is it just a flat out no i am building a mountianous g scale next year so i need strong locos i also can't find a g scale turntable
Thanks for your comment. I enjoy building locomotives that are not the norm. I usually sell them as I complete them. I'm almost finished with the next one. It is a 4-6-0+0-6-4 and is 44" knuckle to knuckle.
Hey John. Thanks for your comment. I would love to see it running on your track. Would you please send me some pictures or a short video? My email is at the end of each of my CZcams videos. Thanks so much. Bill
Over the last 2 years I’ve watched this video like 10 times. Every time is just as amazing as the last. Such a cool collection. I dont know how much longer I can hold myself back from tearing apart two of my ten wheelers.
Very nice engines. Iv toyed around with lionel 0 4 0 motors hooked together as a base for an O gauge garot and was quit surprised how well the thing ran around the track and how much it pulled.
Admirable beyond the pale. Great job, wish I also had thought of building Garratts years ago... Thank you for sharing... Do you have any docs on your kitbashing just in case I get the energy to do one even in On30!
If I recall right, the proposed one for the North American use was compounded in the Mallet sections, so the outermost cylinders were low pressure (100-150psi - ish) and the inner pair were high pressure (250-280 psi). Tractive effort would be ...lots.. Suspect the infrastructure needed to run a beast like that could have been interesting as well, bit like the UP's use of gas turbines. What could be fun is watching one try and get started.
I love G scale Sushi Trains . I can't justify buying my own G train as the prices in Australia are out of my pay grade . Its great to see old fellas spend the inheritance on garden railways . Why not
Warum wird hier immer die ineffiziente Variante gewählt? 4 Dampfzylinder in der Mitte bringen kürzere Wege und somit mehr Leistung. Borsig und Krauss hatten das schon lange erkannt. Das Thema taucht auch bei der Super Garratt auf. Troztdem Gutes Handwerk!
I see that everything other than the locos are North American and I think the cars I saw driving by were travelling on the RH side of the road. If you are in North America, you must be the only one there who even knows that Garratts exist. Do you prefer them to Mallets? Why do you think Garratts never appeared in North America? By the way, I'm an engineer who is too young to have worked on steam but I spent 30 years with the NSWGR, owners of the AD-60 class. Saw one running just a few weeks ago.
@@IndustrialParrot2816 - Streamlined Garratts were used on the Algerian railway system. IIRC they double pacifics They were also planned for the NSWGR system, but the 1929 Depression got in the way.
Shouldn't a Garratt have 2 sound units ? One of the things that makes Garratts magic, is the way the exhaust note changes as the front and rear units slip in and out of "synch"... (just joshing, I'm open mouthed in appreciation of your efforts ;) )
The locomotives I’ve built in this video are all free lance locomotives. When I made them, I didn’t have anything to go by other than a picture or two that I found on the internet of the only streamlined Garratt that was built for the Algerian Railroad before WW2. They were gone after the war so they had a short life. The regular freight Garratts I have built are also free lance. I’ve tried to build an American looking Garratt. Thanks for asking.
All the locomotives that I have built have been freelance locomotives. The main reason for this is because I have used Bachman chassis on all but a couple of them. I didn’t know there was a quadrupled from Belgium. It would make for an interesting build if you could find four of the right chassis to use.
Very fine scratch and kitbash locos but only the Streamliner reflects areal Garratt...those of the French Algerian Railways ( SNCFA). All the others, even the Double Articulated model, are " Under Boilered"...the Garratt design required sufficient steam production to supply Two sets of cylinders ( or four in the Articulated model)...your take-off Bachmann voilers would barely supply one cylinder set! Keep onlythe cab and the Chassis units, build all the rest to proper proportions ( as you did the streamliner) In any case, veryfine work, imaginative US Garratts...Just think a IHB boiler (0-8-0) feeding a NG Garratt; or a UP 9000 ( 4-12-2) Boiler feeding a NG 4-8-4 + 4-8-4, or even a double articulated wheel train.... Too bad the Rivarossi IHB 0-8-0 are extinct, their boilers were the right size for an On3 or On42 Garratt, and the Chassis for a 1n30 loco. What materials did you use for the Tender bodies ( styrene, brass or tinplate)??? Regards Doc AV
Thanks for your comment. I bought two new Bachman engines and tore them completely down to the chassis. Then I built up the new super Garratt on the chassis. Thanks
by the way would sell me a smaller american garratt for under 800 bucks or is it just a flat out no i am building a mountianous g scale next year so i need strong locos i also can't find a g scale turntable
Ah so these arent live steam models? Also ever thought of naming them?
"the super Garratt isn't real, its cant hurt you "
the super garratt:
i think it is a compound
Man I want one! the outside frame one is amazing! You have some serious talent and great taste!
Thanks for your comment. I enjoy building locomotives that are not the norm. I usually sell them as I complete them. I'm almost finished with the next one. It is a 4-6-0+0-6-4 and is 44" knuckle to knuckle.
I think garratt number 20 is my favorite of the bunch, still, amazing work on all the other things.
Hi Bill. Your first Garratt 4-6-4 + 4-6-4 is now in Australia and running on our Sydney Society of Model Engineers track. Regards John
Hey John. Thanks for your comment. I would love to see it running on your track. Would you please send me some pictures or a short video? My email is at the end of each of my CZcams videos. Thanks so much. Bill
Thanks for letting me know. I’d love some pictures or short video please. Thanks again. Bill
@@billbivings4125 I've emailed some photos and a short video. John
@@billbivings4125 Some photos and a video have been emailed to you Bill. Regards John
Over the last 2 years I’ve watched this video like 10 times. Every time is just as amazing as the last. Such a cool collection. I dont know how much longer I can hold myself back from tearing apart two of my ten wheelers.
Tbh one of the more unique steam engines I've seen
All the locomotives I've built are freelance but there are many different Garratts through out the world. Thanks for asking.
An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. ♡ T.E.N.
So super-cool! Kudos for your kit-bashing expertise. Cheers from Camden, NY
Very nice engines. Iv toyed around with lionel 0 4 0 motors hooked together as a base for an O gauge garot and was quit surprised how well the thing ran around the track and how much it pulled.
Admirable beyond the pale. Great job, wish I also had thought of building Garratts years ago... Thank you for sharing... Do you have any docs on your kitbashing just in case I get the energy to do one even in On30!
Most enjoyable !
The Mallett- Garratt blew me away. Was there ever such a beast in real life, or did you just let your imagination run wild ?
South African Railways had plans for one but I don't think they ever built a prototype.
There was a proposal for one for North America but it never got beyond the proposal stage.
one was proposed for use by some american railroad Union pacific i beilive but it never got built
so how much steam dose the super garret use?answer: yes
If I recall right, the proposed one for the North American use was compounded in the Mallet sections, so the outermost cylinders were low pressure (100-150psi - ish) and the inner pair were high pressure (250-280 psi).
Tractive effort would be ...lots..
Suspect the infrastructure needed to run a beast like that could have been interesting as well, bit like the UP's use of gas turbines.
What could be fun is watching one try and get started.
That super garratt is bonkers, way cool. maybe a six truck willamette/shay garratt in the future?
Jayden. I wish I had thought of that before I sold it. I too would like to have seen just what it could pull. Thanks for your comment.
ive never been a fan of garratts but these are great
I like those
That super Garratt is magnificent!
I love G scale Sushi Trains . I can't justify buying my own G train as the prices in Australia are out of my pay grade . Its great to see old fellas spend the inheritance on garden railways . Why not
unreal
particuly the super garratt
8:43 now thats what you call a DOUBLE STACK! Lol
bill listen you need to doa video just runing the super garret just seeing how much it can pull for a video that would be really cool
you are really talented
Warum wird hier immer die ineffiziente Variante gewählt? 4 Dampfzylinder in der Mitte bringen kürzere Wege und somit mehr Leistung. Borsig und Krauss hatten das schon lange erkannt. Das Thema taucht auch bei der Super Garratt auf. Troztdem Gutes Handwerk!
I'm guessing No.20, the double atlantic, started life as a pair of bachmann annies which each lost their rear coupled axle?
Yes I started with two new Bachman chassis. I actually cut the middle axel out and then put the ends together. Not an easy task. Thanks for asking.
@@billbivings4125 Now you've got me thinkin'. And there was a very pretty TGR 4-4-2+2-4-4 garratt, the only class ever built with 8 cylinders. Hmm.
@@jonathanj8303I think I know the one😂. Happy modeling
I see that everything other than the locos are North American and I think the cars I saw driving by were travelling on the RH side of the road. If you are in North America, you must be the only one there who even knows that Garratts exist. Do you prefer them to Mallets? Why do you think Garratts never appeared in North America? By the way, I'm an engineer who is too young to have worked on steam but I spent 30 years with the NSWGR, owners of the AD-60 class. Saw one running just a few weeks ago.
So the 2-6-6-2 + 2-6-6-2, did you buy 2 new 2-6-6-2s or did you find 2 broken ones? I personally try making Tank engines out of parts locomotives.
Is it just me or does the streamlined U1 look like a steam engine version of the GG1
I see you've went for the more unusual. Sound right through would have been nice.
If your interested in one of my Garratt, email me using the email at the end of the video. Thanks for your interest.
Are these locomotives that actually existed?
Is it fictional?
@James Ring well some were used but bill amkes garratts that weren't built like the streamlined or mallet garratts
@@IndustrialParrot2816 - Streamlined Garratts were used on the Algerian railway system. IIRC they double pacifics
They were also planned for the NSWGR system, but the 1929 Depression got in the way.
Impressive
hmsjr01
Thanks for your comment
There is sound in the video but not all the locomotives have a sound system. Thanks for your comments.
Shouldn't a Garratt have 2 sound units ? One of the things that makes Garratts magic, is the way the exhaust note changes as the front and rear units slip in and out of "synch"... (just joshing, I'm open mouthed in appreciation of your efforts ;) )
Wow!
Would it be possible to draw blueprints or references drawings of them?
The locomotives I’ve built in this video are all free lance locomotives. When I made them, I didn’t have anything to go by other than a picture or two that I found on the internet of the only streamlined Garratt that was built for the Algerian Railroad before WW2. They were gone after the war so they had a short life.
The regular freight Garratts I have built are also free lance. I’ve tried to build an American looking Garratt. Thanks for asking.
U should build a g gauge union pacific big boy stream engine
You supply the new chassis you would like a Garratt kit bashed for and we’ll come up with a price to build it. Email me if your interested.
interisting
can you build a quadraplex from belgium
All the locomotives that I have built have been freelance locomotives. The main reason for this is because I have used Bachman chassis on all but a couple of them.
I didn’t know there was a quadrupled from Belgium. It would make for an interesting build if you could find four of the right chassis to use.
do they produce bigboys ?
Very fine scratch and kitbash locos but only the Streamliner reflects areal Garratt...those of the French Algerian Railways ( SNCFA).
All the others, even the Double Articulated model, are " Under Boilered"...the Garratt design required sufficient steam production to supply Two sets of cylinders ( or four in the Articulated model)...your take-off Bachmann voilers would barely supply one cylinder set!
Keep onlythe cab and the Chassis units, build all the rest to proper proportions ( as you did the streamliner)
In any case, veryfine work, imaginative US Garratts...Just think a IHB boiler (0-8-0) feeding a NG Garratt; or a UP 9000 ( 4-12-2) Boiler feeding a NG 4-8-4 + 4-8-4, or even a double articulated wheel train....
Too bad the Rivarossi IHB 0-8-0 are extinct, their boilers were the right size for an On3 or On42 Garratt, and the Chassis for a 1n30 loco.
What materials did you use for the Tender bodies ( styrene, brass or tinplate)???
Regards Doc AV
but the Super garratt was a compound which means i recycles steam between the cylcinders
I was hoping that 'steam' meant live steam, indicating some commitment to the craft. Pity.
Bachmann? No wonder they look american! (except a few of em)