I had to make this thread when i found a picture of what i think is the ugliest locomotive. Santa Fe had to rebuild Amos & Andy......
Heres Amos & Andy in there Prime hauling the cheif.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ATSF_1.jpg
Heres Andy ( the ugliest locomotive)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ATSF_10.jpg
Andy was rebuilt into a cabless booster, then rebuilt to look like Amos.
Amos is #1A, Andy is #1
I agree that the second image shows the ugliest locomotive. Even the trucks don't match in that photo.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
NOW I know where the idea for the Transformers came from !!!
I think they were wearing a when this was designed !
Cheers,
Warren
8500HPGASTURBINE wrote: BL-2
BL-2
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Oh, come on now! Compared to those two the BL-2 is a fricken Beauty Queen!
-George
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
Actually, compared to some of the newer GE stuff I see idling away at UP's Roseville yard, Amos and Andy look kind of cool.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
This one's rather ugly: http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/plate091.Html
Some of the New Zealand bush tram engines had the esthetic qualities of
Well, of this: http://www.teara.govt.nz/TheBush/UsesOfTheBush/BushTramsAndOtherLogTransport/4/ENZ-Resources/Standard/2/en
Then there's this odd combination of what looks like either a Heimax or a Clisler.
Either that or Heislers and Climaxes mated when people weren't looking.
http://tinyurl.com/3xbxbe
Andre
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
ATnSF_M-160 wrote:I had to make this thread when i found a picture of what i think is the ugliest locomotive. Santa Fe had to rebuild Amos & Andy......
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twhite wrote: Amos and Andy look kind of cool. Tom
Amos and Andy look kind of cool.
Yep, they sure do, they got to haul the super cheif, till the E1's where ready.....then after the rebuilds, off to CB&Q they went.
To me, the ugliest locomotives are the following:
Steam: Pennsylvania T1 class 'dog nose' 4-4-4-4 streamliner.
Diesel: CN GMD-1
aloco wrote:To me, the ugliest locomotives are the following:Steam: Pennsylvania T1 class 'dog nose' 4-4-4-4 streamliner.
Spoken like a true diesel connoisseur. The T1 is gorgeous; classic Loewy styling.
Unlike the ugliest loco in history... drumroll, please...
The Baldwin Babyface.
Ran through the ugly forest and hit every tree.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Chop nose RS-3.....
(click for close-up view)
The Alco RSD-15 has a nose only a mother could love. Jimmy Durante ...eat your heart out....AHHChaachaachaa...
All f those except for the RSD15 are ugly. IMO the RSD15 is pretty cool.
The Ugliest loco IMO is the newer GEs and EMDs with the wide nose. The HHP-8 is pretty close too.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
cwclark wrote: The Alco RSD-15 has a nose only a mother could love. Jimmy Durante ...eat your heart out....AHHChaachaachaa...
I'm not a mother! I love those engines, so beautiful, among my favorites actually!
Magnus
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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The CF-7...a waste of a perfectly good F-unit!
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the
end of your tunnel, Was just a freight train coming
your way. -Metallica, No Leaf Clover
Baldwin Baby Faces? They were gorgeous as was the T-1 Steamer.
BL-2, imho, takes the top honors in "Yuck-gly!"
That CP RS-3, to me, still looks like "Goofy" from Disney.
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
If I may be permitted to go offshore in a different direction:
The South Manchuria Railway had a class of "streamlined" tank locos which looked like BL-2s with cylinders and drivers. (No photo, unfortunately. Or, maybe, fortunately!)
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
aloco wrote: To me, the ugliest locomotives are the following: Steam: Pennsylvania T1 class 'dog nose' 4-4-4-4 streamliner. Diesel: CN GMD-1
on the T-1
Hammerhead RS-3 and RSD-5........
Sorry but all of the aforementioned contestants, though outstanding in their own way, are bush leaguers compared to this beast!
See, even the F unit that it is hooked to can't stand to look at it!
Humm....you'd of thought they would have repaired that loco after the accident. Before letting it back out on the line I mean...!
Actually if it's a train, it ain't ugly! Homely perhaps, but not ugly!
Tilden
tomikawaTT wrote:If I may be permitted to go offshore in a different direction:The South Manchuria Railway had a class of "streamlined" tank locos which looked like BL-2s with cylinders and drivers. (No photo, unfortunately. Or, maybe, fortunately!)
marknewton wrote: tomikawaTT wrote:If I may be permitted to go offshore in a different direction:The South Manchuria Railway had a class of "streamlined" tank locos which looked like BL-2s with cylinders and drivers. (No photo, unfortunately. Or, maybe, fortunately!)Chuck you mean the DB-3? I don't reckon they're ugly at all. Bachmann make them in HO, too!Cheers,Mark.
Thomas the Tank Engine as envisioned by the anime crowd?
If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is really thinking.
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