Collection of G Scale Garratt Steam Locomotives

[@johnwallace2275]

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

[@billbivings4125]

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 KZbin videos. Thanks so much. Bill

[@billbivings4125]

Thanks for letting me know. I’d love some pictures or short video please. Thanks again. Bill

[@johnwallace2275]

@@billbivings4125 I've emailed some photos and a short video. John

[@johnwallace2275]

@@billbivings4125 Some photos and a video have been emailed to you Bill. Regards John

[@billbivings4125]

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

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

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

[@whispofwords2590]

Ah so these arent live steam models? Also ever thought of naming them?

[@wazzo8527]

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.

[@CGiordano464]

Man I want one! the outside frame one is amazing! You have some serious talent and great taste!

[@billbivings4125]

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.

[@jacksonscustoms9793]

@@billbivings4125what would you sell a consolidation Garrett for and how long would it take to build

[@tracynation239]

An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. ♡ T.E.N.

[@gearedloop3195]

I think garratt number 20 is my favorite of the bunch, still, amazing work on all the other things.

[@rvnmedic1968]

So super-cool! Kudos for your kit-bashing expertise. Cheers from Camden, NY

[@caseyvillemodelrailroad3877]

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.

[@tracegatlin6307]

Tbh one of the more unique steam engines I've seen

[@fv8405]

"the super Garratt isn't real, its cant hurt you " the super garratt:

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

i think it is a compound

[@DarrenHudson-g2x]

It's a mallet garratt

[@billbivings4125]

All the locomotives I've built are freelance but there are many different Garratts through out the world. Thanks for asking.

[@r.c.r.rproductions8462]

ive never been a fan of garratts but these are great

[@spdaylight1]

so how much steam dose the super garret use?answer: yes

[@richardwilliams6837]

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.

[@DarrenHudson-g2x]

​@richardwilliams6837 the tractive effort would be like 170000 pounds plus if done right

[@amsgone]

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!

[@donovankillian1532]

That super Garratt is magnificent!

[@thestarlightalchemist7333]

8:43 now thats what you call a DOUBLE STACK! Lol

[@robertfarquhar1265]

unreal particuly the super garratt

[@EeBee51]

The Mallett- Garratt blew me away. Was there ever such a beast in real life, or did you just let your imagination run wild ?

[@davidrayner9832]

South African Railways had plans for one but I don't think they ever built a prototype.

[@kiwitrainguy]

There was a proposal for one for North America but it never got beyond the proposal stage.

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

one was proposed for use by some american railroad Union pacific i beilive but it never got built

[@victabeer3960]

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

[@billbivings4125]

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.

[@garrattfan]

Most enjoyable !

[@alanfaulkner5266]

That super garratt is bonkers, way cool. maybe a six truck willamette/shay garratt in the future?

[@DarrenHudson-g2x]

That would be cool a logging garratt or a sd40-2 garratt on a c-c-c+c-c-c wheel arrangement

[@Jakbiecrane88]

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

[@ianstanley672]

you are really talented

[@DarrenHudson-g2x]

That super garrat is crazy imagine if you did like a 4-12'12-12-2+2-12-12-12-4 ultra garrat

[@jonathanj8303]

I'm guessing No.20, the double atlantic, started life as a pair of bachmann annies which each lost their rear coupled axle?

[@billbivings4125]

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.

[@jonathanj8303]

@@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.

[@billbivings4125]

@@jonathanj8303I think I know the one😂. Happy modeling

[@luceliorodrigues7504]

I like those

[@enginestheyreamazing4568]

Would it be possible to draw blueprints or references drawings of them?

[@billbivings4125]

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.

[@billbivings4125]

There is sound in the video but not all the locomotives have a sound system. Thanks for your comments.

[@EeBee51]

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 ;) )

[@hmsjr0154]

Impressive

[@billbivings4125]

hmsjr01 Thanks for your comment

[@n700z28hikari528]

Are these locomotives that actually existed? Is it fictional?

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

@James Ring well some were used but bill amkes garratts that weren't built like the streamlined or mallet garratts

[@EeBee51]

@@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.

[@warhawkwarrior9835]

Is it just me or does the streamlined U1 look like a steam engine version of the GG1

[@tankthehedgehog105]

Wow!

[@spdaylight1]

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.

[@leonseifi3352]

can you build a quadraplex from belgium

[@billbivings4125]

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.

[@leonseifi3352]

do they produce bigboys ?

[@davidrayner9832]

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.

[@wernerrockinger5077]

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!

[@billbivings4125]

If your interested in one of my Garratt, email me using the email at the end of the video. Thanks for your interest.

[@Lighting_Desk]

I see you've went for the more unusual. Sound right through would have been nice.

[@michaellindsay6735]

U should build a g gauge union pacific big boy stream engine

[@billbivings4125]

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.

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

interisting

[@jacksonscustoms9793]

Can you please reply with an email address so i can contact you about this

[@astridvallati4762]

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

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

but the Super garratt was a compound which means i recycles steam between the cylcinders

[@thestarlightalchemist7333]

Bachmann? No wonder they look american! (except a few of em)

[@johnleach7879]

I was hoping that 'steam' meant live steam, indicating some commitment to the craft. Pity.