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I'm intense in my love of Alco units, especially the RSD-15. I am gathering a collection of these, with high short hoods, to be my fictional road's standard engine class, alongside RS-11's, which run a close second place. Their lines are so pure, they are like modern art compared to EMD's romanticist curvy lines (on the first-generation units) or brutalist boxy corners (in second-generation units). A flat faced nose, with numberboard notches cut at 45 degree angles, a perfectly circular radiator fan housing, and a constant-radius arc for the cab roof... actually, I guess this is really postmodernism, but then consider that these units were designed in the 50's not the 80's... <br /> <br />The high-nose RSD-15 is just a beast of an engine, much like the SD-45 which N&W insisted on high-nosing as well. The '45 is by far my favorite EMD. Never liked U-boats much. As for steam, it would have to be N&W's class J, which was all about elegance, subtlety, and power.
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