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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Sask_Tinplater</i> <br /><br />I love a wide variety of trains and, while I have preferences as to what looks better (ex: I think GG1's look much nicer than GP30's), there are very few locomotives that I actually dislike or think are ugly. <br /> <br />However, there are some exceptions. <br /> <br />The all-time ugliest locomotive for me has to be the Leader locomotive built in Britain in the 1950's. Believe it or not, this is a steam engine! Couldn't these people have at least made an effort to have it look somewhat attractive? <br />[img]http://www.skyrocket.de/locomotive/img/sr_leader_36001.jpg[/img] <br /> <br />I've also never cared very much for the Turbo trains. They were created by aircraft designers and you can tell. <br /> <br />There are also a number of ultra-modern bullet trains I don't like the looks of. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />This Engine was ahead of its time! Just looks like an EMD Class 66![;)] <br /> <br />Although deemed as a failure - this thing could pull! If only BR had put more money into the project it could have gone somewhere - then I am sure they would have spent a little more time and money to make it look a little more attractive than the picture supplied! <br /> <br />My vote for the worst looking locomotives would have to be for Ismbard Kingdom Brunel's broad gauge locos! All fat and ungainly! Or any Great Western Railway locomotives - they did the right thing by standardising parts, so different classess of locomotives has interchangable parts, but they were so old fashioned and dull they could not compete with the sleep lines of the Gresley A4 (Mallard) or Stanier Coronation class locomotives. <br /> <br />I think one of the strangest looking locomotives was LD Porta's 'Argentina' - again a locomotives that was ahead of its time, but looks like something out of a comic book. Hopefully though it will one day run again - a tribute to the great man himself! <br /> <br />Regards, <br /> <br />Stephen.
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