South African Railways

hamstergarratt

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Hi everyone.

I have been trying to find any South African railway, locos, rolling stock in gauge 3 foot and 6 inches. I would just like to know if anyone can tell me if they have ever came across South African Railway stuff and if so, were.

Thank you
 
Hi,

Welcome to the forum.

You'll find people much more likely to help you if you register your Trainz serial number. Also people will then be able to see which version you have, so can help you with appropriate answers to you question.

Regards,

Anthony
 
I know there were at least two South African locomotives included with Trainz 2004 by default (a 34 Class diesel electric and a 6E1 class electric). If you register your copy of Trainz you should be able to find them on the Download Station (DLS) without too much trouble.

Note that these have standard gauge bogies though instead of 42" gauge ones, due to them being old content from before narrow gauge track became common in Trainz (you can run them on narrow gauge as is though without any trouble, as the software doesn't differentiate between track gauges - every train and track is the same gauge as far as it's concerned).

Additionally, I know Austin36Hockey made a basic model of a 31 class Garratt, but as far as I'm aware that was only available on a third party website which I cannot remember the link for anymore (it's not on the DLS) - in any event it was Trainz 1.3 content and has a few errors which mean it would most likely not work in newer versions of Trainz without fixing (other than 2010's Compatibility Mode).

Finally, speaking of Garratts, althoughit's not 3'6" the 2 foot gauge SAR-SAS NGG16 class Garratt as preserved by the Festinog railway in Wales is available for download on Trainzone (http://www.trainzone.co.nz) in several different liveries.

I'm not sure there is any specific South African rollingstock available however.
 
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There is also a 2 foot gauge NGG11 that was included with TRS2006 and should be available on the DLS.

Peter
 
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