Thread: Big Beyer Garratt 6029 restored at last

Who did the restoration? I'd love to get up close to a 60 class again.

ARHS ACT did the restoration, the link to the restoration page is in the first post

Regards,
Tote

I wonder if Heavy Harry is even bigger?

Heavy Harry waits patiently for plans to get him back on track

My father who recently passed away, was an apprentice at Newport Railway workshops and once jumped up into the cabin of Harry when he had steam up. Apparrently he did get her to move a bit before the foreman told him off!

Thanks for the great videos.

Originally Posted by simonmelb

I wonder if Heavy Harry is even bigger?
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According to the reference I have to hand (Locomotives of Australia), Heavy Harry is about four tons lighter, and about 8,000lbs less tractive effort. But it ran higher boiler pressure, and had a larger grate. But it was designed as an express locomotive for Melbourne - Adelaide, with bridges to be upgraded to cater for it, where the AD-60 was designed as a heavy freight locomotive with low axle loading to allow use on existing branch lines track without any upgrading. So the two had design briefs that could hardly be more different.

(In the event, largely because of the war, the bridges on the Adelaide route were not upgraded and H220 could never be used for its designed purpose.)

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

According to the reference I have to hand (Locomotives of Australia), Heavy Harry is about four tons lighter, and about 8,000lbs less tractive effort. But it ran higher boiler pressure, and had a larger grate. But it was designed as an express locomotive for Melbourne - Adelaide, with bridges to be upgraded to cater for it, where the AD-60 was designed as a heavy freight locomotive with low axle loading to allow use on existing branch lines track without any upgrading. So the two had design briefs that could hardly be more different.

(In the event, largely because of the war, the bridges on the Adelaide route were not upgraded and H220 could never be used for its designed purpose.)

John

EXCELLENT info.
I've seen "Heavy Harry" in the Williamstown Museum, and stood in the cab,....a pretty big engine!!
But surely, the money to restore such a monster will never be found?....I visited Steamtown at Peterborough last week, and the only thing missing there is some live steam,...but the people I spoke to there said that they had almost zero hope of achieving that,...no expert engineers, workers etc, and NO MONEY to either rebuild, maintain, or run, any live steam?
Pickles.

Originally Posted by Pickles2

EXCELLENT info.
I've seen "Heavy Harry" in the Williamstown Museum, and stood in the cab,....a pretty big engine!!
But surely, the money to restore such a monster will never be found?....I visited Steamtown at Peterborough last week, and the only thing missing there is some live steam,...but the people I spoke to there said that they had almost zero hope of achieving that,...no expert engineers, workers etc, and NO MONEY to either rebuild, maintain, or run, any live steam?
Pickles.

But 6029 is steaming. I suspect that the advantage it had is that it lives right in the city with one of the highest average levels of disposable income in the country.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

But 6029 is steaming. I suspect that the advantage it had is that it lives right in the city with one of the highest average levels of disposable income in the country.

John

Yes, and top job too, I was just saying that the Steamtown guys said that they couldn't see any hope at all of ever achieving that (live steam).
Pickles.

They did not that long ago. If only they had remembered to store their locomotive properly when they stopped using it.

Aaron