7 1/4" Garratt Locomotive "EAR 59 Class"

[@EeBee51]

I have nothing but open mouthed admiration for the people who have the determination and skill to complete a project like this. As this model must have taken years to build, it verges on being an obsession....

[@barryharriss4720]

A beautiful Garratt model, built by a master model builder, a real artist to be sure

[@45PamelaAnn]

I don’t have adequate words to express my deepest respect and admiration for those who build and run those magnificent scale models of locomotive legends. The skills and commitment it takes to construct such machines is deserving of the highest regard and respect. All connected and involved are simply wonderful examples of the best in human skills and endeavour. Thank you so so much for the joy you bring to us all and for honouring the original designers and engine builders.

[@marknewell7355]

That is a stunning locomotive

[@harrys8617]

59 class were brilliant ,reliable powerful steam locomotive fired with crude oil.I know as my father drove them till 1972 in Kenya. This is very much like it .Same colour scheme too. Thanks brings back brilliant memories.

[@timbylander7015]

I am a handyman, mostly self taught and I have built many things, but when I look at stuff like this and realize somebody built it by hand I am just in awe!

[@chiefauditor1683]

Time and passion is what's required.

[@pietersnackaert]

@@chiefauditor1683 and money, which i've heard this man has as he's broken multiple speed rules at that club (with passengers onboard) and he has gotton away with it that way

[@steffenrosmus9177]

​@@pietersnackaert" all animals are equal but some are more equal than the others" (Animal Farm by George Orwell)

[@Avrenac]

I know exactly what you mean!

[@harrys8617]

My father drove 5925 and 5924 EAR in Kenya up till 1972 . Very impressive British built steam locomotive .Most powerful metre gauge locomotive in the world at the time. Route was MOMBASA to NAIROBI .

[@SR-jx5jr]

I drove that route by car , wonderful, I'm Belgian BTW

[@harrys8617]

@@SR-jx5jr My father was steam locomotive driver of these magnificent British built steam locomotive. Kenya was a very beautiful then. Even the roads were good. I live in ENGLAND since 1976.

[@johnleake5657]

I remember watching them in the early 1970s, such a beautiful sight. My father was a teacher in Nakuru, and we came back to England in 1973, so just before you. You must be proud of your father!

[@harrys8617]

Ajmer singh Sandhu and Co driver Joga singh chohan. Mombasa Nairobi line.

[@darkstone_official_2427]

You know the video's good when it has 5+ 'Most Replayed' moments throughout the timeline.

[@Anoges160]

wow. A Garratt Loc in this Scale? Amazing. MEGA

[@ronwilken5219]

Beautiful model. I note he's operating on coal of some description. The actual EAR&H Garratts were in fact oil fired there being no coal available in the area. The name EAR is also incorrect for their time period and should include the H for East African Railways & Harbours. I believe the H got dropped around the times of independence of Uganda from the east African federation of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda some time in the early 1960's. Still a formidable work putting basically two locos into one. Well done.

[@jayantpadhiar6141]

Amazing I used to watch this engines in Kenya,

[@tangatoto362]

Wonderfull! As a kid growing up in Kenya in the 1950s, I recall hearing these majestic Garratts blowing their whistles somewhere down in the Rift Valley , the sound would echo up through the night air to the highland altitudes. Lovely memories brought back by your lovely video.

[@ColinMill1]

I remember being pulled by one of these locos on the Nairobi to Mombasa run (to pick up the "SS Kenya Castle" bound for the UK). Returned to Kenya on a Comet 4 a few months later but in mid '64 left, never to return, on the first commercial VC10 flight to take off from Nairobi. Great memories though all the transport have become museum pieces or worse a long time ago.

[@andrewdock7288]

@@ColinMill1 see my site Facebook : Garratts steam locomotives in preservation and service.

[@ColinMill1]

@@andrewdock7288 Thank you, I will indeed.

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

what kind of whistle do they have anyway?

[@kishascape]

They still do. There’s one channel on here that did a “steam around the world” video series and I remember seeing one of these somewhere in africa running passenger service.

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

You know, it's basically quite clear that garratt locomotives certainly were quite a sight EVER SINCE K 1 (the world's very much well-known 1st ever garratt locomotive to be constructed in 1909 for the Tasmanian Government Railway) designed by Beyer Peacock exactly 114 years ago this year despite some disadvantages that I personally just suddenly recall learning 'bout from watching another awesomely excellent well-known KZbin video by Train of Thought not too long ago!

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

Keep up with the excellent work!!!

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

AMAZIN' ARTICULATED STEAM-DRIVEN RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE!!!!!!

[@misterflibble6601]

I can only stare in opened mouth awe for 7 minutes and 04 seconds at this magnificent locomotive! The locomotives featured at the end of this video were the icing on the cake!

[@FlyingFoxandBambi4475]

WOW! I wish we had a Garratt Locomotive at this gauge in the UK.

[@PharaohDeathMask]

What a great video. The footage of the coupled wheels and the valve gear was superb! Thanks for sharing this.

[@neumoi3324]

Grandparents operate this railway and other grandparents with their grandchildren enjoy the joyrides too. Where is this, let me bring my grandchildren to this place. 😊😊

[@christophercox3181]

Designed to pull heavy mineral trains on steep gradients and tight curves while having a low axel weight for the low quantity track. Tractive effort 73,500 lb at 85% and full size weighed 252 tons with an axle weight of 21tons

[@SimplyTakuma]

So we would agree, the Garrats are the most powerfull locos from Europe (after the Big Boy from the US), even the Garrats arent (only England once) driving in europe arround.

[@ZooTycoonLord]

so this is like the european version of the Shay and Heisler locos

[@SimplyTakuma]

@@ZooTycoonLord More the Articulated ones, Shay, Climax or Heisler are geared ones. They have nothing in common with the Garratts and other mallet locomotives like Challenger or Big Boy.

[@royreynolds108]

@@SimplyTakuma Challenger nor Big Boy are mallets; they are simple articulateds like the Garrett.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

@@SimplyTakuma That last is wrong. Not only the UK had used some Garratts, but Spain was the country in Europe which used them the most. Furthermore there were a couple of Garratt tramway locomotives in Belgium, and one that operated in the most southern part of the Netherlands, which has hills. That one, the LTM 51 was the most powerful tramway locomotive in the world, its tractive effort being 21000lbs and its weight 71 metric tons, that's around the same as the South African NG/G16, which was the heaviest and most powerful loco on the 2' gauge, four of these are based on the Welsh Highland Railway in the UK, and several have been preserved in South Africa itself and other countries around the world, I believe there's one in the US as well.. The Garrats used in Britain were a bit of a failure, the LMS Garrats suffering from poor design, as the chief engineer at the time, Fowler, dictated the use of a standard type of axlebox which wasn't strong enough for the engines weight. The other one built, the LNER U1 wasn't a failure as a loco, but its potential couldn't be used because of the weight limitations imposed on the trains themselves, due to the used 3 link couplings being to weak for the tractive effort this machine could develop, just one was built and it was intended as a banker, when pushing a train the couplings weren't the limiting factor. The third type in the UK was a small 0-4-0+0-4-0 intended for industrial use on very tight curves, they were a bit of a succes, and one of those is preserved, although not operational yet. One of the Spanish Garratts is preserved in operational condition and used for specials, and one or two others are in non operational condition.

[@locowerke]

Impressive model! The railway is equally impressive, love the engine shed & station building!!

[@leszeksak1365]

H HD

[@jefs2928]

I remember that he has build it some years ago, and while he was also running his top bakery in the town center(turnhout) , if I am not wrong . He invited me once in his shed where he builded this magnificent loc . A most friendly man.

[@marcobuijs1271]

Allemachtig wat een mooie machine👍

[@Brian-1948]

So lightly loaded it doesn't even need to chuff. Brilliant loco.

[@ilankotzin3104]

Thanks for sharing... I remember the Garratt locomotives running in Natal, South Africa hauling coal from Hlobane down to Durban......

[@cyberstar251]

this looks so relaxing.

[@mrhearse777]

A monumental piece of work ! Full Respect to all concerned . I just wanted to see it pull 50 people with ease . It probably would pull the house down . Terrific. Thankyou

[@terryfromsouthcarolina4601]

I would love to hear that Garrett pulling a load. Sweet trains though! Terry from South Carolina

[@livingchutoy5422]

This is a truly amazing locomotive. I have always loved the unique design of the Garrat. This little loco is just beautiful. The color just screams "Behold my awesomeness!". I love it!

[@doct0rnic]

These little trains prove how efficient railroads are, those little tiny wheels are able to pull a whole train of full grown adults with ease

[@psgower72]

I love this Locomotive!!!! What a beautiful work of art!!!!!!! The view of the cab is awesome. Clean and well thought out.

[@exveefan]

It's so nice to see many different people, especially a lady, having a go at driving a magnificent locomotive.

[@johnnichol9412]

Why is it so amazing that a woman can drive one? Zig Zag Railway New South Wales Australia has women driving a full size loco, women fly planes, women drive cars including on the track and bikes as well , women race boats including an all female crew in the Sydney to Hobart race and so on.

[@exveefan]

​@@johnnichol9412 I've been in a miniature railway society for nearly 20 years and unfortunately seeing women driving the trains is not common. YES I know there are some in the hobby, but a majority of the time I mostly male gender roles doing the driving. I'm always supportive when I do see ladies have a go, as I want the hobby to be more diverse.

[@johnnichol9412]

@@exveefan You may have, but my comment was why is it expected that woman aren't as capable as men? Your OP is sexist in that it infers that women are inferior to men.

[@davidfmelbourne3473]

A stunning locomotive in an outstanding setting. You've made my evening with this video. Thank you.

[@asdfdsa45]

These are amazing. I need to find these parks in the USA , New Zealand, UK and see them in person, this is just too cool!!!

[@wearemany73]

I can’t believe the size of the people in this clip, they’re enormous and make this train look almost like a toy! 😮

[@thebritishengineer8027]

Good God.... that is beyond impressive. I hope to go on a Grand Tour next year, Turnhout just made my itinerary.

[@ronniescott5179]

Marc has great skill and patience to make this beautiful loco well done.

[@roltrain]

What an awesome model. Attention to detail is amazing. Seems to ride very well. Would love to own one of those. One of my favourite locos.

[@stephensmith799]

Gee wizzzz! As good as it gets!!!! The Driver's Seat alone is a work of beauty!

[@wolfgangkrebl3056]

WOW! that is really,really great. Perfect craftmanship.

[@WA1LBK]

WOW! That is an AMAZING, smooth- running locomotive! 😊

[@Locoman3801]

Oh WOW!!! , what a gorgeous piece of workmanship ; a lot of time , effort & money has gone into this beauty of the rails & she runs so well too ( as well as looks included ) & I feel the owner would be very proud of his efforts ; these are so similar to the Australian 60 class of the New South Wales Govt Railways or the South Australian Govt Railways 400 class Garratt loco's so please let the owner know of these if you happen to keep in contact with him as it'd be nice to see here in Australia on 1 of our many miniature railways that we have here.

[@TimsBitsnPieces]

That is an awesome looking engine. It is also lovely to see a woman driving the engines also, great to see. The club has some lovely looking engines there.

[@electrik_loss]

I know this video was about the 59 Class but I did not expect to see a Class-C shay!

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

love the EAR 59 class wish i had one of these myself then i could go down to the mini railroad and run it

[@chrismurnane6389]

Beautiful models all of them, the Garrett is perfect and so is the Shay,(l hope l spelled that right)

[@nigelslade5276]

Superb. The original was oil fired and possible the most powerful steam locomotive outside North America

[@harrys8617]

It was the most powerful metre gauge locomotive my dad was a locomotive driver in Kenya and drove 5925 and 5924.

[@DC-yt2kf]

What a beautiful garratt loco.

[@mattharte7334]

This is amazing and hats off to the builder. I don't think you'll have any wheel slip/traction issues (if that's the right phrase) like other engines. It would be great to see a full size Garratt one day in the UK, maybe the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust should build one next!

[@royreynolds108]

There are 3 operating Garretts on the Welsh Highland Railway: two SAR 2-6-2+2-6-2 and the K-1 0-4-0+0-4-0 from Tazmania the very first Garrett.

[@EeBee51]

K1 has an interesting history. do a search for "World's first Garratt".

[@on4xb]

@@royreynolds108 you forgot to mention they are "narrow gauge" versions. Plus there is a 4th running as well on the WHR: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a562Y318ZbJ6qaM

[@K-Effect]

The tiny chair is my favorite part of that locomotive.

[@bruceraggett4506]

The chair gives it scale and realism all the better realised when a giant hand appears in shot. Best turn out of engines, location and filming I have seen so far. It's a shame I am in New Zealand.

[@railtrolley]

A thoroughly detailed model: modelled steam regulators, water level gauges etc. Alot of beautifully turned and fabricated in different metals. I'll bet this model would weigh over a tonne.

[@manivannan6682]

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[@ReryX08]

yeah

[@Victor-056]

@@zackary_fennik Imagine the horror on his face when he sees the Driver had cut a hole in the cabin.

[@Wreckedftfoxy]

such a cute little locomotive

[@GenX-Gamore]

This mini stedam Locomotive is just amazing, WoW 👍👍👍

[@kevgermany]

Magnificent. I saw something very similar running in real life in Zimbabwe. Thanks for the memories.

[@SimplyTakuma]

Big respect and thumbs up, Mr Melis! Wonderful to see one giant in a steam model form.

[@ninaporras9723]

The Garratt is unbelievable.

[@jamestullett6215]

An amazing locomotive! Thanks for the post!

[@robertgift]

Magnificent locomotive! Wonderful views! Thank you.

[@stamrly418]

Fabulous I like big engines that can work hard. The clip of the cab was magnificent. I took the double take ..when I saw it .. it was a little too clean to be convincing. Then the hand came in and the illusion evaporated just like the water that the fire was making int steam. Just lovely good work on her and the track as well as all the other locomotives. Amacf

[@glenncerny8403]

Very cool. Never saw one of those before. The Shay was interesting too.

[@theeastman9136]

Great engine and exciting camera angles. Thank you.

[@DutchVanHelsing]

The germans and dutch really go to town . love it

[@mikedarbyshiretriplex9967]

nice job beautiful craftmanship

[@tacfoley4443]

One word - magnificent.

[@michaelcruse7570]

What a beautiful loco,great colour, where are you based

[@wwebtime]

Simply fantastic.

[@porkypine52]

A SHAY with a PURPLE paint job!

[@bingbong7316]

Inspired by Jimi Hendrix, "Purple Shay is in my eyes..."

[@geraldwagner8739]

What an impressive machine!

[@captvictor]

holy sh!7, fantastic Garratt. the Shay at the end for the win

[@ЛЬВИНИ]

Very good video 👍👍👍

[@chazco]

What an awesome and beautiful locomotive.

[@梅花木かいらぎ]

Wow, it is beautiful Garrett locomotive.(とても綺麗なガーラットですね。感服致しました。)

[@JohnDavies-cn3ro]

Oh, wow! That is just magnificent; you run short of superlatives. I make my own model locomotives from brass, but in 4mm scale - have just completed a Manifold Valley loco - so know just how much work has gone into creating that beautiful engine. I''ve never seen a Garrett in action - until now. What a sight. Sir, whoever you are, I salute you as a true master craftsman. Being serious, how much does she weigh, and how do you transport so big a model?

[@alan-sk7ky]

Splendid! A wonderful engine you have made sir 🙂

[@unpaintedleadsyndrome]

Ik vroeg me onlangs nog af of die treinen in Turnhout er nog waren... Moet van de late 70, vroege 80 geleden zijn dat ik daar op heb meegereden. Fijn om te zien dat dit nog bestaat :-)

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

[@malcolmbrown3532]

Whilst the Garrett was great. I really liked the shay at the end.....

[@nlo114]

Horses for courses :-)

[@megamonkey56]

no doubt some special effort and time was put into it

[@teamidris]

The three truck shay is mint :D Perfect for park railways.

[@chuckfink7419]

That Garratt is very impressive but so is the right of way over which it is running. One doesn't run anything, much less a locomotive that's this large, so smoothly at the speeds the Garratt was moving without near perfect track.

[@grumpyg9350]

What a cool place and video. 👍👏🏻🙏

[@michaelcruse7570]

What a beautiful train,well done ✔

[@jharris947]

WOW! I have trouble making an Airfix model train. Lovely.

[@GnonplussedGnome]

This is Amazing!

[@oscar35575]

Absolutely magnificent.

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

I seriously do wanna mention how I've personally just suddenly realized that the Garrett featured in this official video certainly happens to basically have an officialy official 4-8-2+2-8-4 wheel configuration meaning that there's exactly 4 leading wheels followed by 8 drive wheels followed by 2 trailing wheels on the front tender where extra water's kept followed by 2 leading wheels followed by 8 more drive wheels followed by 4 more trailing wheels in the officially official rear! I personally just suddenly realized that this officially official Garratt locomotive certainly MUST be a specifically wonderfully great mix of a specific mountain/Berkshire type of steam-driven railway garratt locomotive with more-or-less 1/2 of the configuration bein' completely the officially well-known mountain type of configuration WHILE the other end with the officially well-known 2-8-4 set of wheels certainly happens to be a Berkshire type of wheel configuration! In other words for another awesomely excellent well-known fact, it certainly does officially well-knowingly obviously seem to me that this garratt locomotive must be a specifically wonderfully great mountaineer-berkshire due to the officially well-knowingly obviously noticable 4-8-2+2-8-4 wheel configuration! I personally just suddenly also apparently for another awesomely excellent well-known fact realized that this official Garratt locomotive certainly seems to officially run on minimum-gauge tracks meaning that it'll basically make such a specifically wonderfully great addition to the officially well-knowingly popular Arlsedale minimum-gauge railway located near Arlseburgh on the Island of Sodor near the officially well-known North Western Railway's own official Branch Line that runs from Tidmouth all the way to Arlseburgh that officially happens to be very shockingly surprisingly well-known as the Little Western branch line that's basically ran by a G W R 57OO class pannier tank engine named Duck alongside a specifically wonderfully officially well-known 14xx 0-4-2 auto-tank engine named Oliver alongside a specifically wonderfully great well-known G W R toad brake van built in the year of precisely 1924 respectfully named Toad alongside several auto coaches alongside with the occasional Caledonian Railway 812 class O-6-O steam-driven railway tender locomotives that officially built @ the same time in the year of precisely 1899 respectfully known as Donald & Douglas who actually ran away from Scotland to avoid the Scrapper's torch! Besides, it's basically quite clear to me that this garratt locomotive certainly would definitely make such a specifically wonderfully great addition to the Arlsedale minimum-gauge railway!!

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

In other words for another awesomely excellent well-known fact, this garratt locomotive can easily help with hauling heavy goods trains as well as passengers up the hill with no complete trouble whatsoever! I personally just suddenly came up with the officially well-knowingly clever idea of placing official brass nameplates on each side of the boiler that officially read Izzy in broad letters!

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

In other words, this official Garratt locomotive with more-or-less a female character for the well-known Arlsedale minimum-gauge railway located near Arlseburgh on Duck the G W R 57OO class pannier tank engine's own official Branch Line that officially happens to be very shockingly surprisingly well-known as the Little Western due to his own official complete Great Western heritage!

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

I personally just suddenly learned from watching very shockingly surprisingly closely on 1 of the sections of my own official DVD that's basically titled The Best of World Steam with narration by Peter Fairhead himself in the section 'bout Great Britain that garratts certainly have got the advantage of working equally perfect in either direction!

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

BRAVO!

[@DavidScholz-bu1ix]

I personally just suddenly learned from watching the section on Great Britain in Best of World Steam with narration by Peter Fairhead that Garratts certainly are built to be very shockingly surprisingly articulated with exactly 2 steam-driven engines that officially can easily pivot on the framework of the locomotive in order to negotiate sharp bends with ease!

[@CARANDTRAIN]

Great job from the CARANDTRAIN channel.

[@rjl110919581]

THANK YOU FOR SHARE VIDEO AS GREAT WATCHING

[@royreynolds108]

Magnificent model.

[@TABRO284]

Can a real Garratt Locomotive "EAR 59 Class" travel at the same maximum speed in either forward or reverse? great model and great railway too.

[@TristanMorrow]

the trailing trucks on the 57, 58, and 59 Garratts allow them to track equally well in either direction -- however nearly all photos and video do show them operating smokestack-first.

[@EeBee51]

Search KZbin for W44 Ore train :)

[@DavidCarroll-q1q]

When you think you're the coolest guy in the train yard then this guy......just wow😮

[@barrywhitley2535]

What a beauty.

[@jeffkitney39]

Thanks for the video closeup of a model 59 class used on Kenya railways

[@pirozcontractor6006]

The only British loco that can be compared to the "Big Boy".

[@sithlordofoz]

And it ran in Africa... The NSW AD60 could be as well - but it isn't a "British" Loco either. Best you can manage in Britain is the LNER U1.

[@JMVvideosByDjMarty]

There was a plan for a german steam engine like that too, the BR53, but never been build...

[@SimJackson]

@@sithlordofoz or an LMS Beyer Garrett

[@sithlordofoz]

@@SimJackson the LMS version was too Midland like and so wasn't great. Didn't have the power of the Big Boy. At least the U1 had some serious grunt.

[@Supermaverickbinesh]

I love steam engines and it has a great feeling.

[@MSgt-op4ke]

What a masterpiece 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@teamidris]

Wow, what a gorgeous loco :o)

[@zhardoum]

Lovely model.. great to see how these machines work even if on a smaller scale. There is a full size one (sadly not running) Inside the Manchester Science and Industry Museum, Manchester, England, UK. I remember it vividly, hulking beast of a train.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Class_GL_4-8-2%2B2-8-4

[@corbinb5410]

DJAnarkros DJ & KZbinr there is 1 more black loco that still runs

[@trainman9024]

we've got mainline garretts that run right here in aus so come on down and check them out

[@corbinb5410]

Daniel Pizzey really how many?

[@trainman9024]

@@corbinb5410 I don't really know

[@Mr7yhnmki8]

Outstanding!!!

[@eggs_trains]

where is this? Such a beautiful railway its on

[@ketanparikh4794]

Superb

[@rpm2night]

This really is a spectacular locomotive! I never knew there was a live steam scale Garnett. Are the rear drivers powered, too?

[@hoppercar]

How do you get the steam all the way to that back engine.....and the exhaust to the stack without to much condensation

[@timothysmith8300]

I like the garret and the shey locos.

[@tracynation2820]

Super. 💙 T.E.N.