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[quote user="JT22CW"][quote user="cprted"]Of course, on the steam side of things, Camelbacks are [b]just silly[/b][/quote]Of course. Surprised I never thought of that...installing the wide Wootten firebox so that the anthracite that was so abundant in the Northeast could be used as fuel, just silly. Moving the engineer's cab further up the boiler so that he would have better forward visibility, just silly. Never mind the fact that these "silly" Atlantics, Ten-wheelers and other wheel arrangements of Camelbacks were the bread and butter of a lot of Northeastern railroads and set some remarkable speed and other performance records. A practical locomotive certainly would be beauty to the railroad owners and bean counters. Would you rather be able to see down the track or have your loco look normal?IMO camelbacks look cool anyway. Beauty and ugliness are so subjective. I prefer not to have an opinion.  A locomotive that does not work is ugly.Talgo 350: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Talgo_350.jpg/800px-Talgo_350.jpg[/img] too ugly!!! [hits computer screen with sledgehammer to destroy image of ugly talgo] Black Mesa & Lake Powell's unique E60Cs: [img]http://www.trainweb.org/southwestshorts/images/bmlploaderv.jpg[/img] ugly, but cool SNCF's BB16500 class: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/SNCF_BB_16771_at_Lens.JPG[/img] ugly SNCF's new BB60000 class: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/SNCF460018.JPG[/img][/quote]ugly
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