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ebay find of the day, the INCREDIBLE freelanced "Garratt" made from K-27 parts that Westside imported as brass HO locomotives in the 70s.
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Aren't there like only 20 of these things ever made, and everyone who owns one knows each other?
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It's a neat idea, but the whole point of a Garratt is having the boiler between the trucks allows it to have a bigger diameter and a big firebox. This model looks too skinny to me. Live steam Garratts have been built in G scale using pairs of chassis from various locos, but no K-27 ones yet...
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Would have made no sense for the Rio Grande to do that since they had a wide enough loading gauge on their alignments to just go outside-frame with the K-36 and K-37, ending up with standard gauge boilers on 3-foot gauge axles
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I wish Garratts had caught on over here.
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I do think there might have actually been some US Garratts if Beyer-Peacock had licensed to Baldwin instead of Alco.
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