They are actually building two replicas of some Sandy River locos. a 2-6-2 tender engine and a 0-4-4 Forney! You can see them on their website as well as some progress on their construction.

Will they be shipped to the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum? Also, correction, there rebuilding SR&RL #10, which was a 2-4-4t forney..

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Glad you enjoyed it. I must revisit the line at some point as I believe it is quite a bit longer now

The Brecon Beacons in Wales are beautiful, as is Snowdonia...and Pembrokeshire with its coastline...and the beaches of Gower..and the meadows of Monmouthshire, and, well, most of Wales is lovely

That's because baldwin built both, although this former 2 footer (in SA it ran on 2ft gauge track) gets its outside frames from Baldwin's larger 3 foot gauge locos built for the Denver's and Rio grand and the white pass rr in the yukon.

Actually all of the Prairie engines and the larger and more modern Forneys on the Maine Two-Foot lines all had outside frames. On such narrow track, outside frames were essential for stability. SR&RL #9 and #8 were basically the same engine except #8 had inside frames. #8 was much less stable and I believe actually killed her engineer in a tip-over. This engine is basically an expansion of SR&RL #23, the biggest of them. Maybe if the SR&RL had continued to grow in hauled tonnage, this would have been the next step. What's great is if you get an original edition of Linwood Moody's "Maine Two Footers", there is a photo gallery at the end of the book titled "Two Footers from Around the World", and the Baldwin builders photo of this very engine is in there.

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Thanks for the info. I thought it was Baldwin built,but wasn't totally sure! She certainly has a bark of an exhaust & obviously plenty of power!

The South African Railways themselves had 6 nearly identical locomotives from The Baldwin Works, they were classed NG10 and did run untill replaced by the even more powerfull NG15 "Kalahari's" when these were moved from SWA were the track there had been regauged from 2' to 3'6"in the early 60's. Do you know if there was any alteration done for the move from 2' to 1'11.75" track, in the form of tyre turning or even moving the tyres a bit inwards? or could the locomotive cope straight away with the minute difference of a quarter of an inch? I can imagine the tolerance for the track gauge in itself covers the difference. I'm volunteer locomotive fitter, but not a specialist in trackwork. Like your video and I love the sharp bark from that Baldwin, there are some Baldwin locomotives on other narrow gauge railways in the UK I think, I know about the new build of "Lyn" from the Lynton & Barnstaple, a Baldwin 2-4-2 Tank (not yet finished) and the existance of a couple of War Department 4-6-0 Tank engines. But No.2 is the largest of them, and apart from the NGG16 Garrats and the yet to restore NG15 on the WHR the largest loco on the narrow gauge in the UK.

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This loco isnt scaled down, most narrow gauge loco s are full sized for their gauge.

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Hi Ian, well worth a visit especially from a garden railway view point, and as I recall they have some LGB on display at the station too.

There where lots of american built locos, both modern ( GM diesels) and historical, standard gauge and narrow, working in great britian, just google it.

Thanks for your comments, glad you liked it. One of these days I might get over to the States and get to ride some of the preserved railways - I visited Arizona several times in the 1990's, but the Grand Canyon Railway was always non operational when I was there!

granskare That is correct, to keep the grade down to a reasonable percent the track goes up the canyon, turns back and crosses over itself on a tall, curved viaduct before paralleling itself only at a higher elevation. There is a 2 foot gauge railroad built on an old standard gauge line at Cripple Creek, CO called CRIPPLE CREEK & VICTOR. It is on the old Midland Terminal right of way. The locomotives are from Europe but are very nice.

Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers ...yes, it could be mistaken for a 2-8-2! I want to put the current (2017) link to Baldwin #2's page here, in case anyone else enjoys your comment as much as I did www.bmr.wales/about-bmr/our-locomotives/no2-baldwin-locomotive

Plenty of vids about the original Brecon- Merthyr line. It traverses the limestone country north of the coal field, then heads towards the Brecon beacons. it passes scenic reservoirs and hill country

Hi Thomas, glad you liked it, I believe that they have actually extended the line since this video. The coaches have balconies on each end so the shot you mention was taken by leaning out from the one just behind the engine.

Iggy Beauchance Hi, it’s in Wales, on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons

[WUT] RKProRacer it looks like a chopper but with a fully removable drawbar rather than an attached hook, a reasonably common narrow gauge railway approach, continuous braking is provided by air.

Reasonably common yet I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before this vid

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Oh wait 2ft gauge sorry

Pretty close to 2 feet, 1 foot ¾ inches

James Baxter sorry James, I don't have a website!

OK, Thanks

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