Ugliest toy train locomotive

[Anonymous]

Hey, BL-2''s are good engines and they are not ugly. Ugly is the Kraus Maffei!

[Anonymous]

Never mind the responsibility of the "0-4-0 a5"the "M-10007 looks like a pile of shoeboxes:?

[Anonymous]

the m-10006 is uglier than the the "m-10000"it looks like a banged up shoebox.

[Anonymous]

The ugliest train is the cheepo trains.I am not proved of taking care of owning a 0-4-0 a5 from mth.Instead I have to buy the plymouth which the plymouth switchers from k-line seem to hate my train track.

[railfanespee4449]

I think Camelbacks are Cool!!! As for ugliest toy train, I'd have to say the Lionel p/w
0-4-0 under the 2-4-2 shell. A'so, the original 2-4-2 scout.

[csxt30]

I don't mind saying I couldn't disagree more!! Growing up in those years & that time frame, that stuff appealed to us then & still does now. I really don't collect that much Postwar stuff, but when someone shows me a postwar item, or I see them for sale, it makes me take notice & remember those days. As for calling them JUNK & so ugly, there may be a few things you may not know. The Icons of my day were Lionel, not the same Lionel today, Schwinn bicycles, Whizzer motor bikes, Cushman scooters, American Flyer, Gilbert erecter sets, etc. Thanks, John

[Anonymous]

I agree with odd-d too, it all looks cheap.

[Anonymous]

Any postwar motorized units, especially the tiejector!

[Odd-d]

The ugliest trains are ALL Lionel post war plastic junk , the 726,736, 2046, 2056, 671,681,all diesels are uu-uuugly. Now I like the pre war hudsons, Hiawathas and PRR B6 0-6-0s, but you can keep the rest of the plastic toys or give them to some poor children. I do like the pre war lithographed tinplates........especially standard gauge. I might have liked Lionel better if they had followed conventional steam loco design rules with cenyerlines through the smokestack , cylinders and pilot truck and horizontal centers through the boiler and through the pistons and driver centers. As it is the post war steams look lopsided and wierd. I much prefer the modern full scale stuff they make now. Odd-d

[Jumijo]

The "ugliest" toy train locomotive? Sponge Bob Dockside switcher, hands down! What a horrible representation of a wonderful little loco. I thoroughly dislike "licensed-set" locomotives. Who wants a loco, let alone an entire train, splattered with graphics and logos of merchandise or organizations other than real rr carriers? I wonder if toy train manufacturers actually make money on those sets?

Those locos and sets are ugly, but quite a few are just of no interest to me, like the Porter. The Trainmaster locos just look like huge rectangles to me. 19th century locos like the General also do not appeal to me.

Jim

[TexasEd]

Got it!

M-10000



Looks like it's wearing a catcher's mask.

[macdannyk1]

AEM-7's. Darned ugly boxes on wheels.

[prewardude]

The ugliest locomotives I have ever seen (toy or real) are AMTRAK'S Genesis locomotives! Whoever designed those things better go back to college and do some more learning. I mean, it doesn't look like they even tried. Leave it to AMTRAK to put something this hideous-looking into service!

[TexasEd]

That UP passenger engine with the facemask looking grill. I don't remember what it is called, but it was something like Z-2000.

[laz 57]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I say the ugliest are those BEEPS.
laz57

[csxt30]

Well I never saw a toy train locomotive I didn't like !! Plus if I didn't like it, I'm sure someone else would like it !! [:D][:D] Thanks, John

[Munster518]

Well, I got to say that the ugliest locomotive I've ever seen where those beeps. I don't care what road name they are, or the draw bar pull, their ugly.[:p]

Sincerely
John[:D]

[espeefoamer]

In the late 1950s Lionel produced a locomotive that had a low profile cab,then behind that had a missile launcher that shot 4 missiles sideways off the loco.This was painted in several millitary schemes.This was a really ugly unit.

[3railguy]

Although it is popular, the Beep is ugly to me.

[Anonymous]

The ugliest train is the 2-8-8-2,the cutest train is a porter.

[Kooljock1]

After seeing the review, and because it's so small and appears to have monstrously over-sized couplers...

I'll vote for the K-Line Plymouth.

The BL-2 however...is a work of art! Much like an Edsel!

Jon [8D]

[FJ and G]

I was looking at some Alligator Geep train models last night (GP-15s?). Boy are they ugly!

dav

[FJ and G]

Daniel,

Reg. SF Hudsons I'm glad they only experimented on skirting for the Blue Goose. I like to see the mechanicals. The only skirting that really looked good was the Hiawatha and the Dryfuss Hudson.

dav

[Anonymous]

Dear FJ and G,

The cab-forward was many things--maginificent, graceful, awe-inspiring, but not ugly.

There are some European locomotives which, while not necessarily ugly, certainly are unusual. Of course, I can only think what someone in Poland thinks of an AC-12.

My nominations for ugliest would have to be:
1.) The UP's "light challenger" type locomotives, with their smokebox-mounted headlight and lack of smoke deflectors
2.) AT&SF 3460 class Hudson with that horrid skyline casing (fortunately that style didn't last)

Having just said this, let me say that I regard the UP's "heavy challengers" and the Santa Fe's Hudsons as some of the best steam locomotives, in many ways including aesthetics.

See you around the forums,
Daniel

[FJ and G]

Look over photos #3 through #9; each gets progressively uglier with #8 and #9 being the ugliest; ugly enough, in fact, to scare a freight train down a dirt road.

dav

[FJ and G]

If you want to include toy trains in this, i'd have to say the Black Warbonnet set. Whoever designed this should face the firing squad.

[cbq9911a]

BL-2s are goofy looking, but not that awful.

For "Ugliest Toy Train Locomotive", the prize goes to the Marx 634 HO ATSF Geep. An awful looking shell (but a decent mechanism - better than Lionel's) topped off by a yellow and gray paint scheme. And there's a caboose to match.

[Anonymous]

Here is a picture of a Kraus Maffei:

http://www.ofn-group.com/loko.php?loc=1&imgnum=1

(Yes, it is ugly).

Here is another interesting link:

http://wx4.org/to/foam/sp/locos/hydro/oktoberfest.html

On page 2 the auther says "Thus, in 1964 I was introduced to the Teutonic ugliness of Kraus-Maffei."

Daniel Lang

[FJ and G]

Hey dudes:

These are camelbacks: http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/camelback/camelbk.htm

What you pictured is the camel. Big difference. Both ugly.

There's a camel at the B&O museum, if it's still in one piece after the roof collapse. I was there before the big snow.

Agree w/Dr. John. I never cared for the BL-2. Looks too European.

Other ugly locomotives include:

CF-7
Cab Forwards
Kras-Maffaei (I don't even know how to spell this)
The Pepsi Can Locomotive (Amtrak). I don't know the model name
Those small center cabs like the 44 toners

I could probably think of a few others but I've probably insulted everyone by now anyway!

As to modern locomotives like the big Macs and dash somethings, they are not really ugly; they just look too much alike and there's an appaling lack of variety, creativity, and imagination in design. At least they could paint them up nice and pretty like some of the European billboard locomotives.

Dave Vergun