ChadLRyan 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! )
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! )
That looks like a sad hound dog's face....
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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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...
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 It´s a Czech class T 478.3, nicknamed "Goggles".
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.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
I still think the loco "Goggles" looks like a face mask used in the series "Dr. Who"
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....
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....
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!
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;
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" ES44I 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...
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" ES44I 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...
-Morgan
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. " /> 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. " />
aloco wrote: To me, the ugliest locomotives are the following: Steam: Pennsylvania T1 class 'dog nose' 4-4-4-4 streamliner.
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. " />
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.
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.
BL2
OK, it's a UP Big Boy. But this thing is bulldog-ugly.
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.
Meh...what happened to this things drivers?
Or....
http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/patiala/patiala.htm
This ALMOST looks to be Darth Vader's great grandfather....
Thinking outside the box...
couldn't you just put in a DOME??
What about this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO-Class-L.jpg
Makes a BL-2 look good.
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
A dome? On a bi-commuter train with push-pull operation?
Really now...
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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...
And then there was this...
Sir Madog Rick, does not strike me as ugly! How´s this one: JNR class C53 No. 43, a somewhat derailed attempt of streamlining a loco that did not even top 60 mph!
Rick,
does not strike me as ugly!
How´s this one:
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)
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?
blownout cylinder Meh...what happened to this things drivers?
Obviously, somebody put the shell on backwards!
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!