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No. 138 of the Welsh Highland Railway In Dark ("British
Racing Green"?) Livery (DP-10001)
Beyer-Garratts…. Narrow gauge lines all over the world were plagued with a similar problem: small locomotives could only haul small trains and therefore not enough goods or people to pay their way. Experiments with double heading actually created more of a problem as a double headed train required two crews, twice the coal and water and therefore twice the cost. Why not simply use bigger locomotives? The tight clearances and sharp curves of the narrow gauge lines prevented the running of locomotives with a long set of rigidly coupled wheels. Further, larger locos would mean a heavier load on the rails, and the narrow gauge lines were not built to take this extra weight. An attempt was made to solve this problem with the introduction of the Beyer-Garratt locomotive. Garratt locomotives are effectively two locomotives in one, pivoted in two places, allowing them to snake around sharp curves, while spreading their weight over many wheels and thus reducing stress and damage to the track. The NG/G16 class 2-6-2+2-6-2 Beyer-Garratts were built for work in South Africa, hauling pulp wood, copper ore, lumber, bananas, fresh fruit and other bulk commodities to market from the farm lands and mines. Among the most powerful steam locomotives ever built for 2' gauge lines, these locomotives served from construction in 1958 right up to today hauling goods on the ACR, and now passengers for WHR in England. These three NG/G16's now working for the Welsh Highland Railway, Numbers 138, 140, and 143, are all from the same group built by Beyer Peacock in 1958. The Division Point will offer all three of these magnificent engines in On2 (US 1:48 scale) each in it's prototype livery of Red, Black, or Green. 20 TOTAL PIECES AVAILABLE Our models will run on American On2 track and switches without modification.
No. 140 Done in Red (DP-10002)
No. 143 Done in Black (DP-10003)
No. 143 is in daily use while No. 140 remains in storage on the Ffestiniog Railway in The red livery in which it was received from the Alfred County Railway. The red color is that originally applied to the group of NG/G16's that were built for the Tsumeb Copper Corporation, but returned to SAR when the company "Cape" gauged the line to 3'6".