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The AFR Garratt.. 

The Railway was looking for a large steam loco to haul coal and ore trains, after a trip to Aussie and visiting the Sandstone and Termite Railway,  I was hooked on the Idea of a garratt. 

Saw photos of the G class at Puffing Billy and well it was ideal for the AFR, so after getting a LGB Mallet delivered to the Railway the fitters went to work cutting and altering things to fit. The model is roughly based on the Aussie G Class but has had a few NZ alterations. We have given it the running number G43 (as there were only 2 ever built No’s 41 & 42) it has made itself at home on the Railway but has only been test run on trains on the old Railway and used on the odd work train building the new.

 

  Dubs A towing in the Mallet for its conversion

  

       Tanks and bunker taking shape                             Work commences on the smoke-box,

               as well is the boiler.                                   cab & boiler.   The sand boxes are in place.

 

 

       Front unit completed and painted.                    Westinghouse pump, funnel, check valves

                                                                                        & smoke-box door has been  fitted.

 

Back unit freshly finished & fitted to the loco.          Out on a test run with an ore train on the old Rly

 

 

              Front view on the new Railway                                 Back view on the new Railway

                                 

                                  Looking down on the loco after a load test on the bridge.

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