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Greetings from Australia.  This may be an idiotic question, but I'm a newbie.  It's something I noticed long ago and have always wondered why.  English locomotives, particularly the old LNER and GWR designs of the 1920s and 1930s almost always presented a very plain, "uncluttered" side view, while US locos were festooned with pipes and various equipment.  Continental European locos were usually somewhere in between.  By the way, I am not referring to the "streamliners" but to the ordinary run of main line locos. Why was this so? A few facts about railways in Queensland, the state where I was born and raised.  My Dad was a roster clerk in the Queensland Government Railways, he sent out notices to drivers and firemen, that was up to about mid 1960, he was promoted to other positions after that.  The Queensland system is the largest narrow gauge one in the world, gauge is 3'6" or 1067mm.  Probably their greatest revenue now comes from coal hauling on lines leading to Gladstone and Mackay which are big coal loading ports.  Most of these lines are electrified, as is the approximately 700km (440 miles) from state capital Brisbane to Rockhampton.
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