Streamlined Cab units

[mudchicken]

Shovel Nosed GE's:

DSG did not know what to call them, but lumps them in with the "straight" U6B's and DL535's.....regardless, fun to watch & listen to those little rascals run!

Think you ought to add the BL1/BL2 Mongeese and GP22/GP30 to the list account automotive curves in the cab design/shrouding....not a bulldog nose, but....

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

I would add the DL500C (Alco World Locomotive, SAR 930's and NSWGR 4400's, how did you miss these, Peter?) and the Baldwin R-615E (a sharknose version to compete with the World Locomotive).

The WP&Y shovel-noses are a GE export design which predates the Universal line, which was introduced in 1956. They are not U6B's.

[M636C]

English Electric built a number of export diesels and electrics with vaguely Alco style noses for Spain, India and Australia, and one batch of EMD style units for Egypt as well as hundreds of domestic UK units with a distinctive nose style.

Peter

[mudchicken]

Fodder to chew on:

Alco's "Black Maria" units, 244 engines under developement (9/2000 Trains)
Ingall's Shipbuilding lone unit to GM&O
Westinghouse's Blue Goose
The Alaska Shrouded ALCO RS-1's
FM Erie Builts, C-Liners
The Mexican Experiments (Wreck Rebuilds)
Shovel Nosed/ Alco Engined GE U-6 units on White Pass & Yukon

[Anonymous]

GE's UM20B - http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/erie750.jpg

More information - http://utahrails.net/all-time/all-time-08.php

[Anonymous]

Having just finished reading the "Streamliner Pioneers" special edition, I have a question.

How many manufacturers produced "automobile styled" cab units that were basically knockoffs from EMD's early "E" and "F' units? (appearance wise)
You've got the afore mentioned E's and F's series
The Alco PA's FA's and DL109's
The GE EP-4's
Rock Islands EMD TA'a
Baldwin Centipedes, Shark noses, and baby sharknoses
The GE made "Turbine trains" used by the UP

Any others that qualify as distinctly different while following the same basic form in appearance?

Seems like FM should have a candidate too.