Worst and Best looking Locomotives of all time

[Anonymous]

CB&Q 5600's
BN sd70mac's (cream and green)
santa fe sd75m's (warbonnet)
santa fe gp60's (blue and yellow)

ugliest...
sd70ace
anything amtrak
FP45
U30(or 33 can't remember) CGB
CF7...i see Illinois RailNet's almost everyday...can't get used to it

[cefinkjr]

My votes for worst looking are the BL2 and the GP30.

I've always wanted to build a model of an SD30 and let some 'expert' tell me that I've got the wrong number of hinges on the access doors on the left side of the hood or that the XYZ RR used a different paint scheme on their SD30s.[:-,][(-D][:-,]

Best looking: Southern's PS-4 Pacifics would be hard to beat.

[ericsp]

Best:
1) SD40T-2
2) SD45T-2
3) GP9
4) GP60
5) GP40-2
6) GP38-2
7) 8-39B/8-40B and corresponding C-models (Wide nose excluded, I don't like big noses)
8) F7A/F7B (and other F & E units that look similar)
9) SW1500/MP15
10) SD9

Worst
1) BL2 (What else?)
2) GP30
3) Baldwin Sharks
4) Early E/F units (those with cabs only)
5) U50
6) MK5000C
7) MK1500/MK2000/GP20D (not to be confused with the GP20)
8) AC6000CW
9) SD70M-2/SD70ACE
10) SD80M/SD90MAC

[Paul Milenkovic]

For the absolute worst-looking steam locomotives of all times, check out

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/USAhp/USAhp.htm

for a compendium of high-pressure water-tube boilered misfits. It is hard to find an ugly steam locomotive (although some of the streamlined art-deco steamers look a bit dated), but whoo boy, check out those photos! They remind me of some of the oversized Miocene mammals from this article in National Geographic -- giant sloths, shovel-toothed elephant, other creatures with names I can't pronounced -- no wonder they became extinct.

For worst looking Diesel, my vote goes to those M-K jobs on New Jersey Transit which had narrow-cab fronts and wide cab backs -- kind of the wrong way around.

I don't find the Genesis that bad -- I actually think the styling is rather creative, and as an HO-scale modeler, the faceted nose is actually pretty easy to fabricate or come up with one's own design based on the same principle -- if a fellow modeler asks what it is, I can say "oh, haven't you seen the new MPI-36-AC/DM-3's that GO Transit just bought?" No one can keep up with all of those weird new designs.

I think the all-around best looking are the E's and F's -- streamlined looking yet with a rugged look of power.

[cpbloom]

Best looking:
GP60M (warbonnet paint)
B40-8W (warbonnet paint)
GG1
Class J
SD40-2F "Red Barns" (YEAH I SAID IT, RED BARNS!)
Hiawatha (And I'm talking about the A class 4-4-2s, NOT the F7 4-6-4 version; I almost put those on the worst list [xx(])


Worst:
BQ23-7
BL2
U50C

[Rustyrex]

Best: SD60 Standard Cab, they just scream power

Worst: Them awful Crandall Cabs on the C&NW, I actually have to turn my head when ever I see one of these disgraces. http://www.drgw.net/cnw/retired/E8/504a.jpg

[jabrown1971]

Genesis Units-UGLY
C & IM RS 1325?-weird
BL-2 Ugly

BQ23-7-Not to bad

Best Gotta go with an SD 40-2

[daveklepper]

For HighIron2003star (hope I got it right), yes that PRR 4-4-0 at Strassberg is if I am correct a D-16. So you and I agree. These were used until well after WWII is the cross Penninsular passenger and mixed train service on the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia penninsular south of Wilmington. I am also partial to E-6's. Rode behind an E-6 between Silver Spring, just south of Redbank, to Princeton Junction via what became the Monmouth secondary track. The E-6 and a bag and coach (P-54) substituted for the expected doodlebug. I love the K4's too, but that is not an objective evaluation of its being a handsome locomotive, the Lackawanna Hudson is truly handsome, bett even than a J3a.

[bbrant]

Here's my votes

Favorites
SD40/SD40-2 or SD7/9 (but only with dynamic brakes)

Least Favorite
GG-1 (or any electric locos for that matter)

[Randy Stahl]

I wish locomotive looks played a part in how locomotives are priced, I'd take a fleet of good reliable UGLY locomotives any day !
Randy

[passengerfan]

Best looking Steam CPR 2-10-4 Selkirks
Best Looking Diesles A-B-A Alco PA-BB-PA AT&SF Warbonnet
Worst looking Steam CNJ Camelbacks
Worst looking diesel s EMD BL-2

[gabe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl

I wish locomotive looks played a part in how locomotives are priced, I'd take a fleet of good reliable UGLY locomotives any day !
Randy

Randy,

Every rail fan knows more attractive engines pull harder and are more reliable. For instance, take my most attractive locomotive: the PRR T-1. Oh wait a minute . . .

Gabe

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy

Best:
Royal Hudson 4-6-4 in Canadian Pacific Colours

Worst:
SD70ACe in any color.

[#ditto] 100%.....AGREE!

[Randy Stahl]

QUOTE: Originally posted by gabe

QUOTE: Originally posted by Randy Stahl

I wish locomotive looks played a part in how locomotives are priced, I'd take a fleet of good reliable UGLY locomotives any day !
Randy

Randy,

Every rail fan knows more attractive engines pull harder and are more reliable. For instance, take my most attractive locomotive: the PRR T-1. Oh wait a minute . . .

Gabe

Oh sure, pick something that takes up alot of space! At the very least an engine that doesn't work shouldn't take up that much space in the deadline.
Randy