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"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder" - or, in other words, you like what you are accustomed with. I grew up when steam was still very much apparent on German rails - mainly steamers with that standard Deutsche Reichsbahn look of the 1930´s, few locos dating back to the times before WW I. French, and foremost, those "clean-shaven" British locos looked odd to me on pictures  I saw in my youth. I, however, grew to like them when I was able to travel and see them in operation or in a museum. Still, there are some I´d call odd looking, if not ugly, the epitome of which being this "beauty": <img src="http://www.bahnbilder.de/bilder/southern-railway-sr-41915.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /> Other than the smoke stack, all other parts that make a steam loco look like a steamer are missing. Personally, I think that designer Oliver Bulleid has gone a little too far with this "Austerity"-design, yet it still sports costly to maintain inside cylinders and valve gear. Interesting fact is, that the German drive to economize during WW II resulted in what was certainly the most successful steam locomotive design ever, with over 7,000 locos built and a large number surviving up until today. <img src="http://www.militarymodelling.com/sites/1/images/article_images/UL29Jun07_001.jpg" style="max-width: 550px;" border="0" /> Designed and built to last only "until the war is over", quite a number of them stayed in regular service well over 5 decades! The difference between those two? In simple words- what you don´t see on the latter picture is not there.
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