Flintlock76As far as the Russians are concerned it doesn't have to look good, it has to work.
And not that they can't make it look good when they want -- see the Raketa class of lake hydrofoils. Foose or Coddington could do no better...
CSSHEGEWISCH I can't really speak to steam locomotive esthetics but the Russians have managed to come up with some of the ugliest diesel locomotives and railcars on earth.
I can't really speak to steam locomotive esthetics but the Russians have managed to come up with some of the ugliest diesel locomotives and railcars on earth.
Different design philosophy. As far as the Russians are concerned it doesn't have to look good, it has to work.
charlie hebdoAnd this isn't some supercilious Malbec description from the Wine Snob.
And this isn't some supercilious Malbec description from the Wine Snob.
Try 'look' crossed with a little hint of 'oak' if you can. Not really hard.
So the English might be like 'luck' drawn out a bit?
That I think I can do.
It is somewhat regional but it is not pronounced as in 'Firelock' ('ah') rather more a drawn out 'uh' sound as best I can do it in English phonemes.
charlie hebdoBut for a German, it is pronounced the same as a long O as in Lok (locomotive).
Then I come up against the dreadful fact that ESU pronounces it 'lock', essentially just as in Firelock1776, and at least one native German speaker over on the MR side does, too. Try as I might, I can't make my mouth do that.
Perhaps this is a regional thing of some kind. Perhaps I'm just plain wrong. But if the long 'o' sound of 'Lok' is applied to a German 'Boxpok' ... it would be just as true to the right semantics of the tradename as 'spoke' is.
But for a German, it is pronounced the same as a long O as in Lok (locomotive).
Overmod Flintlock76 As in "Box-Spoke?" Why, yes. Yes, it is.
Flintlock76 As in "Box-Spoke?"
Why, yes. Yes, it is.
Makes sense, the spokes are boxy!
Flintlock76As in "Box-Spoke?"
Overmod 7j43k The regular way, I see (hear). Alas, the regular wrong way. (For those who don't know, the second 'o' is long.)
7j43k The regular way, I see (hear).
Alas, the regular wrong way.
(For those who don't know, the second 'o' is long.)
As in "Box-Spoke?"
7j43kThe regular way, I see (hear).
Overmod And I got to hear how the Germans pronounce 'Boxpok'!
And I got to hear how the Germans pronounce 'Boxpok'!
The regular way, I see (hear).
Ed
selectorThese locomotives look to be about the same weight and size, including driver diameters, as a Mike intended for freight service. I wonder why they felt they needed two of them for that short train...unless.....
A Voyce Glaze design, or a Oaul Kiefer design, these things ain't. But that doesn't make them any less fun to watch than, say, NKP 587 or Southern "Project 4-5-0-1"
Funny you should say that, OM...it has always been a bone of mine to pick with so many videos and films where a big fun fires, one can often observe direct fire if there's a tracer involved, and then there's a big boom down-range as soon as one sees the fall of shot. Nope...never gonna happen that way.
These locomotives look to be about the same weight and size, including driver diameters, as a Mike intended for freight service. I wonder why they felt they needed two of them for that short train...unless.....
Who cares if the P36 is a comparatively small design by our 4-8-4 standards? Kolomna was certainly -- and justly! -- proud of them.
Note the interesting editing, where they quietly take out the distance time-delay from whistle and exhaust in the long telephoto shots. Someone was thinking.
You have to admit, they make some handsome locomotives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1KXudVNZNg
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