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D60	6029
AD60	6029

AD60 Class Garratt 4-8-4+4-8-4

The 60 class locomotives were built by Beyer Peacock of Manchester, and delivered to NSW over the period 1952-57. They had a massive tractive effort of nearly 60,000lbs, and were regarded as the most powerful locos in the southern hemisphere. Some were modified to increase their tractive effort to 63,000lbs, and had dual controls fitted to eliminate the need for turning on large turntables.

1. 6029

Image : 220124 bytes, 760x520 pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 19 Dec 1996 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description : Glinting in the early morning sun, 6029 makes a spectacular departure from Forbes on an ARHS tour in 1981. Compare this picture with Dennis Rittson's 6029_Forbes_6_6_81.jpg on his Railway Photo Page

Image : 220124 bytes, 760x520 pixels Date : 1981, catalogued 19961219 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description : On a cold and frosty morning, 6029 heads north on the Main South through the Great Dividing Range. This section of track between Yass and Goulburn is perhaps the most demanding part of the Main South on locomotives and train crews, but 6029 was quite equal to the task, pulling only a light load of a half dozen or so carriages, made up from FS/TAM/BSR stock.

Image : 187969 bytes, 760x520 pixels Date : 1981, catalogued 19961219 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description : After hauling several special trains to Michelago, it is the end of the day for 6029 as she sets back into "her" siding at loco in Canberra. Several enthusiastic volunteers will rake her out, blow down the boiler, and make sure that she is in good condition for her next turn of duty.

Image : 80170 bytes, 753x563 pixels Date : 1981, catalogued Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description : Same location and occasion as 6029-2.

Image : 53234 bytes, 638x510 pixels Date : 1981, catalogued Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description :

Image : 82368 bytes, 740x502 pixels Date : June 1981, catalogued Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description : June long weekend, 1981, and 6029 crosses a billabong off the Lachlan river just south of Forbes in central NSW. Although the bridge looks like it can only barely take the weight, in fact the Garratts had wide route availability with their 16t axle loading. The only thing stopping them visiting all parts of the state was a union ban on running them through some single line tunnels, because of their enclosed cabs and the difficulty of egress within the confines of a tunnel.

Image : 46033 bytes, 806x544 pixels Date : June 1981, catalogued Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description : June long weekend, 1981, and 6029 crosses the Breadalbane plains between Yass and Goulburn. This can be a very cold place, and it was no exception this morning!

Image : 65983 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description : 6029 somewhere out near Forbes.

Image : 76711 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : June 1981, catalogued Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Description : Will it make it? 6029 treads warily across a somewhat ricketty trestle bridge, on the Parkes-Stockinbingal line.

Image : 50667 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1979, catalogued 13 Jan 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 7854 Description : Black Engines on Black Nights! There is just enough light around in Goulburn loco to make out the features of 6029, as she stables overnight on the 1979 June long weekend tour of mid-western NSW

Image : 68670 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1979, catalogued 15 Jan 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 7839 Description : 6029 crosses a concrete bridge between Yass and Goulburn on the June long weekend tour of 1979.

Image : 105637 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1979, catalogued 15 Jan 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 7842 Description : 6029 restarts her train after the photo stop seen immediately above.

Image : 43170 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1978, catalogued 22 Feb 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6976 Description : Where's the engine? Garratts always do seem to be enveloped in steam, and 6029 is no exception, as she runs around her train at Michelago.

Image : 105933 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1978, catalogued 22 Feb 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6986 Description : The hills of Tuggeranong form the backdrop to 6029 (plus HCX) as she rounds the horseshoe curve on the return trip from Michelago to Canberra.

Image : 47868 bytes, pixels Date : Feb 1980, catalogued 21 Mar 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 8501 Description : Some enterprising spider has made her web in the cab of 6029, as the loco lies idle in Canberra railway yards over the summer months.

Image : 125972 bytes, pixels Date : 13 May 1978, catalogued 22 Apr 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6971 Description : The Picnic to Michelago special steams down past the Grandstand Gap, just north of Michelago.

Image : 79825 bytes, pixels Date : 13 May 1978, catalogued 22 Apr 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6977 Description : 6029 has her cylinder cocks open as she readies to leave Michelago with her "Picnic to Michelago" special.

Image : 80411 bytes, pixels Date : 13 May 1978, catalogued 22 Apr 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6978 Description : 6029 still has her cylinder cocks open as she shows off the detail of her "tender end".

Image : 118127 bytes, pixels Date : 13 May 1978, catalogued 01 May 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6985 Description : 6029 rounding the horseshoe bend near Tuggeranong, on her return from a "Picnic at Michelago".

Image : 166186 bytes, pixels Date : 13 May 1978, catalogued 21 Nov 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 7906 Description : Derick Cullen and I puffed and grunted up the hillside to get this shot of 6029 puffing and grunting up the "Grandstand Gap". There's a nice movie that goes with it.

Image : 71169 bytes, pixels Date : May 1979, catalogued 22 Nov 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 7811 Description : Derick Cullen and I rattled along in my old Datsun 240KGL along the dirt track that parallels the line from Royalla to Michelago, taking turns to drive while the other took photos. Here's one of them.

Image : 124946 bytes, pixels Date : May 1979, catalogued 22 Nov 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 7829 Description : [Another trip to Mick the Dago, and 6029 makes a delightful, if somewhat incongruous, contrast with her freshly painted end-platform cars.]

Image : 52918 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 19 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11686 Description : 6029 returning from Michelago.

Image : 91818 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 19 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11692 Description : June long weekend 1981, and 6029 set(s) off against an interesting cloud formation. 6029 adds her own cloud to the formation.

Image : 76015 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 19 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11694 Description : 6029 heads across country on the Orange-Parkes line, near Molong.

Image : 77712 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 19 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11696 Description : 6029 reflected in the Bumberry Waterholes.

Image : 90751 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 19 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11698 Description : 6029 near Tichbourne on the Parkes-Forbes line.

Image : 76110 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 21 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11699 Description : 6029 crossing a billabong near Forbes. No swagman camped by, though, jolly or otherwise. Same location as 6029-6.

Image : 68046 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 21 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11701 Description : Near Forbes.

Image : 101254 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 21 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11704 Description : 6029 leaving Forbes. Slide version of print 6029-1.

Image : 114249 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 21 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11704 Description : 6029 leaving Forbes. Do I detect that middle section of track bending downwards at all? No, must be an optical illusion!

Image : 101722 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 21 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11708 Description : 6029 south of Forbes, and caught in the glint of the late afternoon sun. I think I like the photographic challenge of trying to get Garratts dead side on. Makes you appreciate all those 256 tons that much the more.

Image : 40506 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 24 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11710 Description : Yass Junction on a cold winter's day, and 6029 has the stick for departure.

Image : 83024 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 24 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11714 Description : The fog has lifted, but 6029 is intent on putting as much water vapour back into the atmosphere as possible, while crossing the Breadalbane Plains near Yass.

Image : 98003 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 24 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11716 Description : A bit later that same morning, and there's much less water vapour about, except of course, for 6029, as she approaches Goulburn.

Image : 129398 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 24 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11718 Description : A bit closer to Goulburn.

Image : 108140 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 24 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11720 Description : Just where the Hume Highway crosses the railway line on the south side of Goulburn, a horde of motorcaders wait for 6029. A photostop is held, which upsets some of them, but the train passengers get good shots like this one!

Image : 62046 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 26 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11721 Description : 6029 storms past the photo line as it returns to Goulburn. In the background can be seen the Hume Highway, and scores of photographers lining the road.

Image : 104368 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 26 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11722 Description : After the photo stop shown in the previous two images, 6029 pauses to collect passengers, and have a little blow-down of the cylinders.

Image : 40913 bytes, pixels Date : Jun 1981, catalogued 26 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11726 Description : Journey's end, and the photographer's son Nathan checks out the fireman's seat.

Image : 127872 bytes, pixels Date : Feb 1987, catalogued 21 Jan 2000 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 16946 Description : 6029 has run its last run, and now lies as a static exhibit in the Canberra_Railway_Museum.

Image : 100759 bytes, 600x800 pixels Date : May 1977, catalogued 08 Oct 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6334 Description : 6029 storms up Royalla Bank in one of the now-classic runs on the Cooma line, following her acquisition by the Whitlam Commonwealth Government

Image : 43747 bytes, pixels Date : Jul 1977, catalogued 03 Nov 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6422 Description : A cold and frosty morning in Canberra. The moon is still up, and the frost is on 3102's coal. But the boiler is warming up, and 3102 will soon be pulling trains up the Molonglo Gorge.

Image : 147436 bytes, pixels Date : Apr 1981, catalogued 17 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11649 Description : 6029 chuffs away from Canberra Station, watched by 3102 quietly raising steam.

Image : 123814 bytes, pixels Date : Apr 1981, catalogued 17 Apr 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 11648 Description : Easter Weekend 1981, and 6029 departs with a Royalla trip, while 3102 waits for some Molonglo action.

Image : 98298 bytes, pixels Date : Feb 1982, catalogued 12 Jun 1999 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 12121 Description : The wisps of water vapour show that 3102 is not long departed Canberra loco, off to haul some Easter steam trips. Meanwhile, 6029 waits quietly (and coldly) in the background.

Image : 75750 bytes, pixels Date : 13 May 1978, catalogued 22 Apr 1998 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : Ektachrome, slide number 6970 Description : A bright autumn day in Canberra, and 6029 heads off to Michelago with a "Picnic to Michelago" special, while 4433 waits to shunt her oil train.

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