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The worlds ugliest locomotive

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Posted by stebbycentral on Sunday, August 14, 2011 9:22 AM

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Meh...what happened to this things drivers?

http://aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/ljung/ljung2.jpg

Obviously, somebody put the shell on backwards!

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Posted by tatans on Sunday, August 14, 2011 8:44 AM

ChadLRyan

What if.... The BQ23-7 became a standard for modern Locomotives?
Yes, perhaps we would enjoy & actually like something other than the style we know & recognize today (cuz We've been conditioned to them)..
So I got to thinking, why not PhotoShop a Prototype of just that, a modern unit with a 'Q' cab.....?
Opps... I did, & here is my work, an Intermountain ES44Q, a Q..   YES,  a  "Q"  ES44
I took a stock shot & went to town in Photoshop with it..
THIS IS "NOT" AN IMAGE OF AN ACTUAL MODEL!!!!
It is just something I edidted to look like one, if I were to be crazy enough to - 'eeww' - cut up an Intermountain locomotive.
Well, perhaps this is what a modern 'Q' would look like, I don't know, it is just my version of one.
Lets all be happy we still have nice locomotives with pretty stylish short hoods!!!
I personally like what is curently rolling the rails, IMHO!!!
Enjoy!!!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/6014453423_29d9e87192_b.jpg

Who else has any "Customs" out there, lets see them!   Hope you had a laugh over this one!!

That's what its all about, some fun here... 

Chad: I must admit your locomotive is a  great looking rig, far superior to the present, and some past, "GYM LOCKERS WITH WHEELS" school of design, I guess function trumps design in this day and age.  nice work, sort of leaning towards  the U-50 eh?

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Sunday, August 14, 2011 2:52 AM

Sir Madog

Rick,

does not strike me as ugly!

How´s this one:

http://www.skyrocket.de/locomotive/img/jnr_c53_43_1.jpg

JNR class C53 No. 43, a somewhat derailed attempt of streamlining a loco that did not even top 60 mph!

Fast-forward 75 years or so and look at the most recent iterations of the Shinkansen.  There's a remarkable family resemblance...

The C53 was Japan's only home-grown 3-cylinder locomotive.  It was more-or-less a follow-on to six Alco-built C52 class 4-6-2s.  I wouldn't say it was unsuccessful - but the 2-cylinder C51 class which preceeded it outlasted it by a couple of decades.

My vote for an ugly JNR loco goes to a latter-day 9600 class 2-8-0.  After half a century of upgrades and modifications it has all the appeal of a bulldog, which it resembles.

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:22 AM

 

And then there was this...

 

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:19 AM

BF&D

What about this one?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO-Class-L.jpg

 

Makes a BL-2 look good.

Meh...not so ugly...

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Posted by verheyen on Friday, August 12, 2011 5:15 AM

A dome? On a bi-commuter train with push-pull operation?

Really now...Huh?

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Posted by BF&D on Friday, August 12, 2011 2:45 AM

re: Ugly and Unsuccessful

http://www.ironhorse129.com/projects/engines/npc_21/NPC_No21.htm

 

Please note that it was NOT the first cab forward:  the Italian Adriatic Line (Rete Adriatica) showed this type in Paris a year before NPC mad the clumsy and ugly Stetson:

 

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/cabforward/mucca2.jpg

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Posted by BF&D on Friday, August 12, 2011 2:33 AM

What about this one?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO-Class-L.jpg

 

Makes a BL-2 look good.

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Posted by bigpianoguy on Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:05 PM

couldn't you just put in a DOME??

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Posted by bigpianoguy on Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:35 PM

Thinking outside the box...

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:02 AM

This ALMOST looks to be Darth Vader's great grandfather....MischiefLaugh

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:00 AM

Meh...what happened to this things drivers?

Or....

http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/patiala/patiala.htm

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:55 AM

Well I would not call it a beauty, nor being elegant, but it has an appealing look of brute force.

How about some more "Ugly Things"?

Or this one:

The above topped a speed of 125 mph in 1903.

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Posted by bigpianoguy on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:44 AM

 

OK, it's a UP Big Boy. But this thing is bulldog-ugly.

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Posted by ChevelleSSguy on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 11:17 PM

BL2

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Posted by SteamFreak on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 7:22 PM

Okay, how about this Swiss mess.

http://aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/swissturb/swissturb.htm

This is what happens when you have too many of those chocolates with the liqueur inside. Whistling

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Posted by B30-7CR on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 2:52 PM

SteamFreak
  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.  Whistling" /> The T1 is gorgeous; classic Loewy styling.

Unlike the ugliest loco in history... drumroll, please...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Baldwin Babyface.

http://baldwindiesels.railfan.net/nyc/nyc3200.jpg

Ran through the ugly forest and hit every tree.  Dead" />

Now I'm not knocking the RF-16 Shark Nose, or the Centipede, but that thing is hedious.

Crap happens. When it does, stop, take a deep breath, and call the wreck train.

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Posted by Flashwave on Monday, August 8, 2011 1:48 PM

ChadLRyan

What if.... The BQ23-7 became a standard for modern Locomotives?
Yes, perhaps we would enjoy & actually like something other than the style we know & recognize today (cuz We've been conditioned to them)..
So I got to thinking, why not PhotoShop a Prototype of just that, a modern unit with a 'Q' cab.....?
Opps... I did, & here is my work, an Intermountain ES44Q, a Q..   YES,  a  "Q"  ES44
I took a stock shot & went to town in Photoshop with it..
THIS IS "NOT" AN IMAGE OF AN ACTUAL MODEL!!!!
It is just something I edidted to look like one, if I were to be crazy enough to - 'eeww' - cut up an Intermountain locomotive.
Well, perhaps this is what a modern 'Q' would look like, I don't know, it is just my version of one.
Lets all be happy we still have nice locomotives with pretty stylish short hoods!!!
I personally like what is curently rolling the rails, IMHO!!!
Enjoy!!!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6030/6014453423_29d9e87192_b.jpg

Who else has any "Customs" out there, lets see them!   Hope you had a laugh over this one!!

That's what its all about, some fun here... 

You know, except for the anti-glare wedges that make it look like a linmebacker, I do like that.  aybe a job for a Bluebox engine...

-Morgan

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, August 6, 2011 11:37 AM

What if.... The BQ23-7 became a standard for modern Locomotives?
Yes, perhaps we would enjoy & actually like something other than the style we know & recognize today (cuz We've been conditioned to them)..
So I got to thinking, why not PhotoShop a Prototype of just that, a modern unit with a 'Q' cab.....?
Opps... I did, & here is my work, an Intermountain ES44Q, a Q..   YES,  a  "Q"  ES44
I took a stock shot & went to town in Photoshop with it..
THIS IS "NOT" AN IMAGE OF AN ACTUAL MODEL!!!!
It is just something I edidted to look like one, if I were to be crazy enough to - 'eeww' - cut up an Intermountain locomotive.
Well, perhaps this is what a modern 'Q' would look like, I don't know, it is just my version of one.
Lets all be happy we still have nice locomotives with pretty stylish short hoods!!!
I personally like what is curently rolling the rails, IMHO!!!
Enjoy!!!

Who else has any "Customs" out there, lets see them!   Hope you had a laugh over this one!!

That's what its all about, some fun here... 

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, August 6, 2011 6:05 AM

Actually, I have dug up my BQ shell & started cleaning it up, I hope to model it in a freelance scheme & eventually post it here..  They are unique, in addition I have started a nose modification on a Kato F40PH to an F40PHM, which was a little cleaner looking than the BQ, but first impressions.. well...

Has anyone modeled (Bashed) a Speno F40PH-2M?    Like this one;

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Posted by Bomar on Friday, August 5, 2011 9:40 PM

I have yet to see anyone mention the GE BQ23-7 locomotives that ran on the Family Lines.  They are so homely I like them!

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Friday, August 5, 2011 6:06 AM

Yep...that definitely would fit the 'comparison only' rule....

Another one...I'd like to know whether there were any plans to pinstripe this...it has the flame work....

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Friday, August 5, 2011 2:27 AM

Well, I guess there must be a balance in the world we live in.......

Otherwise there could not be beauty like this......

Now, lets look at more contraversial locomotives...

Perhaps, we should start a thread showing our own 'Model'  locomotives, that ain't so darn pretty like....

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Posted by citylimits on Friday, August 5, 2011 2:16 AM

Smile

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Friday, August 5, 2011 12:02 AM

I still think the loco "Goggles" looks like a face mask used in the series "Dr. Who"

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Posted by SteamFreak on Thursday, August 4, 2011 11:35 PM

ChadLRyan

Ahhh, um, ah-I donno...

While researching RFFSA, I saw this DAWG, she sure has a 'sad face'     imho.....       NO???

Wow... that's almost as homely as the Model Power F2 (which began life as the heavy metal Varney F3).

Almost.

 

Sir Madog

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/CSD_Baureihe_T_478.3.jpg/800px-CSD_Baureihe_T_478.3.jpg

It´s a Czech class T 478.3, nicknamed "Goggles".

Someone really needs to Photoshop a snorkel on the front of that thing.

And the N&W Pacific Rick posted is very attractive... maybe a little ungainly, but still nowhere near in the running for ugliest steamer IMHO. Any of the  many European variations on an upside-down bathtub beat that and almost everything else hands down.

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Thursday, August 4, 2011 10:22 PM

Thanks for telling me I'm not way,  'out where the busses don't run...'    I immediately felt sorry for it, when the paint did her no justice.. (not forgiving those windshields, -geez..) How about that ainticlimber & Snowplow detail...?   This gives Prototype modeling a whole new (free) dimention...

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, August 4, 2011 9:42 PM

ChadLRyan

Ahhh, um, ah-I donno...

While researching RFFSA, I saw this DAWG, she sure has a 'sad face'     imho.....       NO???

 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/EE_RFN_710.jpg

 

A small bodied 'F' copy tends to look quite obscure, when we are used to large bodied, accomodating machines.  I (in the sense of conversation of the forum) welcome any comments & thougts on this specimen...    

Personally;     I'm off the fence, over there, & on the 'not side' & 'not looking forward to seeing it anymore'  position on this one....

( just my personal thoughts & opinions, I'm not wanting to harsh anyone's mellow! )

That looks like a sad hound dog's face....SadSmile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Thursday, August 4, 2011 5:41 PM

Ahhh, um, ah-I donno...

While researching RFFSA, I saw this DAWG, she sure has a 'sad face'     imho.....       NO???

 

 

A small bodied 'F' copy tends to look quite obscure, when we are used to large bodied, accomodating machines.  I (in the sense of conversation of the forum) welcome any comments & thougts on this specimen...    

Personally;     I'm off the fence, over there, & on the 'not side' & 'not looking forward to seeing it anymore'  position on this one....

( just my personal thoughts & opinions, I'm not wanting to harsh anyone's mellow! )

Chad L Ryan

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