Garratt- in primer and new pivot locations

Just taken a trawl through "Garratt Locomotives of the World" (A. E. Durrant) and failed to find anything running on 2 foot, with a sloped tank.

Gareth for shear grunt my favourite has to be the RR 20. To hear one of those hauling fully loaded, up the bank out of Mpopoma yard on the way to Beit Bridge, was really something. I kept a sound recording (tape) for many years, taken at night from about 6 miles away, till it passed about 1/2 a mile away and over the crest. I can hear it now and it sends shivers up my back.
 
Nice work Ian really taking shape ;D
 
Bob there were no 2ft gauge garrets with sloping tanks the nearest being the Sierra Leone 2ft 6 4-8-2 2-8-4 garret one is preserved ? As to the recoding of a 20th sounds good ! look after it . As You have Dusty Durrants Book Garretts of the World there is a photo of 2 AD60 on coal train in the Hunters valley they towards the end and are in a bad way they have stalled !! Apparently Dusty while doing the stills photo of this epic moment had 16mm cine camera on a tripod recording the whole moment !! Just think of that as far as I am aware its never been published ! Big on Big trains can,t beat it ( Well just maybe !)
 
The recording disappeared long ago, unfortunately, Gareth. I also have most of Durrant's Garratt books on the shelf. sort of bibles really. Just wish I could find the impetus to get on with my own Garratt.
 
I have all gear required to build another favourite Garrett the Lepodina 2-4-2 2-4-2 branch loco .Thought about putting sloping tanks on it . Problem is I think railway is to small for it ! I owned for a short period an LGB Aster NG13 but it had a fault so I sold it ( I don,t regret it) One day I will build a flying 15
 
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