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As several people have commented, the boiler needs to be fatter and not be tapered to provide enough steam for the 4 cylinders. The air pump would be better placed about the smokebox(Australian Garretts) and the power reverse kept and connected by way of the articulation joints to each power unit. All steam lines usually are kept in the center of the loco for ease of placement. The frame for the boiler needs to be to the width of the clearance diagram (loading gauge) minus enough to take care of overhang on the sharpest of curves the loco would be used on. You have done a marvelous job of Americanizing a Garrett. Alco did have the license to make Garretts but never did. I would like to see a double K Mikado of the D&RGW.

A beautiful model! Thanks for sharing.

Pretty cool to see video of my grandfather in his younger years. I get to see him at a different point of his life. I appreciate the upload!

what did it weigh in gms or ilbs who do you make sure the two powered powered bogies move at the same speed was wheel slippage a problem great model has given me an idea for a supetr duper garrett 4--6--6--6--4 + 4--6--6--6--4 as soon as I work out how to get it round curves ha ha

This reminded me of a neoclassic vehicle that was produced in my hometown of Goleta/Santa Barbara oh say 40-50 years ago. The Clenet!

Hey Tom, hope you're doing fine... What happened to our informal club's Clenet Corner website? I went to show a buddy of mine some of the cars there, and my #48 listed there, but can't find it on google now, and if I remember right, you are or were a club member.... Cheers, Rob in MT

daaaamn that is huge ! love it ! well done Tom !

It's a beautiful locomotive. But, I couldn't finish the video. The drumming was too annoying. It would have been better with just the narration.

Well done project, have always contemplated an American Beyer Garrett and yours was well done. Suggestions: smoke deflectors on either side of the smokestack would balance the narrow boiler, if you get tired of the shark nose you could consider the streamlined water tank of the Rhodesian Garretts. Hope I dont come off as supercriical as I am jealous about your skill, enjoy your beautiful handiwork.

Just curious what kind of radius do you use for that monster to get around without derailing?

Crist almighty a pp-1 😂😂😂😂😂

While can motors are nice, Theres something about the sound of an old open frame motor that just sounds amazing.

I want to 3D model this engine….

Nice work. The drums were a real distraction though.

Homme très intelligent. Very clever man.

magnifiques véhicules je posséde une série 1 et une série 2

j;aurais bien voulu visiter cette socété ou a été produite ma série 1 et 2

dommage que ces véhicules ne soient plus produit

super vehicule je posséde une serie 1 et une serie 2

😮😯😲🤩😍💖👍‼️

Bonjour je suis le propriétaire d,une série 1 et d.une série 2 Ce sont des voitures magnifiques avec un look hors du temps

That’s it I’m getting out of ( N ) and going (HO)

Super lokomotiv 👍 🤝

!!=====HT (_____) /o-o=- OOO---oo oo--

Pure art Tom

Pretty dang cool. Ive been designing my own freelanced Garratts and other locos. This reminds me a little of the Algerian Garratts

i remember that place in goleta had friends and family work there

Nice video. I do enjoy new takes on the Whyte common names. John Allen hence forth.

Nicely done!!

I first saw this advertisement in August of 1962 in the Walther's Catalog.

7:30 Isn't this engine "The Freak"?

Fantastic! Great job Tom. Looks smooth running.

Combien de fois le journaliste va-t-il demander si ça les gêne qu'il n'y ait pas de syndicat ??

I thought USA never had garratt locomotives, but you made an HO scale model!

Special thanks to my dad Ray Kinney for the job when time is of the essence. I spent many hours on the work put into this wonderful automobile. Will live in my memory for ever. Some day I would love to travel to see this one more time. Perhaps be able to make it road ready once again for the now King. Thank You Again Dad I Love You !!!

Art in its truest form Tom- my wife said she loves the background music. Thanks for sharing with us all.🚂

Nice!!

Hi Tom. Glad to see you are still active in model railroads. Was worried about your status, health etc! I am just starting again at 57 yr age after scratch-building some loco's and rolling stock in S Scale as a youngster. Realized its the most satisfying hobby i did all my life. "Power Pushers" made me think of the concept of making a small mine cart wagon being pushed by a human (with moving legs and all!). I have details of that concept being done in the 1970's somewhere on my Hard-drive (Have many Gigabytes of Model Rail Stuff on the PC!) I am from South Africa, planning to do Americas outline Narrow gauge modelling this round (HOn30 scale). Love your attitude to modelling and freelance stuff. You prove this hobby keep the interest for ever! Well aware of John Allen "Gorre & Daphetid Railroad" here in South Africa and very interested in the original prototype "scratch-builders" of USA outline brass locos from Japan. They started something.

I want to make me a pennsy Garrett cause I'm so impressed with your model

Did you make it a double Hudson JUST so you could call it a pp1?

Would you be interested in a brass c-425 made by ALCO models?

This is the mastodon

Your back!

Another excellent video Tom!

I'm incredibly conflicted about these videos. I LOVE the creativity and craftsmanship, but as someone with a RR the is hard to find plastic steam for it hurts to see people bash already hard to find brass into other things. I mean they are his models so what does my opinion matter lol, but my soul still flinches every time. Wonderful work though!

A nice rendition of a would be American Garratt. What you referred to as a shield for the steam pipes is in reality the deep ash pan of the Garratt. Garratts would have wider and deeper fireboxes than possible on rigid locomotives as there were no wheels under the firebox. For this reason it would have been more prototypical to construct a boiler with a very large diameter, and a firebox with a vertical front plate and reaching deep. Because of the width of the firebox, often almost the loading gauge, steam pipes could only be run underneath the ash pan, there is a cutout along the centerline to accommodate these pipes. The place of the air pump high on the running board at the boiler side is prototypical for a Garratt, you could have left the power reverser on the other side as well, many Garratts had them in this same spot with actuator bars going to the front and aft units. These were articulated at the point where the loco was articulated. The Pennsy style bath tub water tank on the front unit is very elegant looking, and forms a unique feature. And indeed, for American railroading practice having the rear bunker almost completely for coal and have an auxiliary water tank like on these South African GMAM locomotives could be the best option, the water tanker could be a centipede tender but with water space only. To counter the problem of reduced adhesion with low stores an axle configuration like 4-8-0+0-8-4 or 2-10-0+0-10-2 would be a logical choice, as relatively more boiler cradle weight is on the drivers then, and less weight change on these driver by percentage when coal and water is used. But the addition of trailing trucks on the inside was very convenient for you to motorize the model, I assume the original drives were in the wrong place.

Absolutely love it. Some great 'alternate' history.

What beautiful models, works of art

I'm not sure what the song is called but I can tell you it wasn't by Pink Floyd. What's up with that? I guess you wanted me to click and I did. Congratulations!