ugly trains
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cascaderailroad
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It's probably just any color excess primer that they found laying around in volunteers garages, or what was on sale at HomeDepot
This 0-6-0 switcher was built as #49 for Georgia Railroad by Baldwin in 1896. During its 45 year service on GA it was renumbered #722 and then #724. In 1941, it was sold to East St. Louis Junction Railroad in National City, IL, and renumbered #17. In 1951, it was sold to St. Louis Material & Supply in Pacific, MO, and then to Basic Materials who donated it to the museum in 1964. #724 weighs 112,900 lbs, has 49" drivers and
19" x 24" cylinders. At a boiler pressure of 180 psi, it delivered 26,510 lbs tractive effort. Its various parts have been colour coded for information purposes.
This 0-6-0 switcher was built as #49 for Georgia Railroad by Baldwin in 1896. During its 45 year service on GA it was renumbered #722 and then #724. In 1941, it was sold to East St. Louis Junction Railroad in National City, IL, and renumbered #17. In 1951, it was sold to St. Louis Material & Supply in Pacific, MO, and then to Basic Materials who donated it to the museum in 1964. #724 weighs 112,900 lbs, has 49" drivers and
19" x 24" cylinders. At a boiler pressure of 180 psi, it delivered 26,510 lbs tractive effort. Its various parts have been colour coded for information purposes.
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CPRailSD40-2
GMD C44-9W
BULLET TRAINS LOOK LIKE A SUBWAY'S CRAP
Some examples of these poor excuses of "trains", they're more like monorails.
now here are the most BEAUTIFUL locos
BUT...
My least favorite North American Locos
I HATE THE PAINT JOB
f*ck CN ES44ACs
Some examples of these poor excuses of "trains", they're more like monorails.
now here are the most BEAUTIFUL locos
BUT...
My least favorite North American Locos
I HATE THE PAINT JOB
f*ck CN ES44ACs
trainman7616
Western Maryland Addict
The shinkansens are far from ugly. In my opinion the F40ph is an ugly locomotive along with snoot nosed locomotives.
Italy is the land of 3000v DC electric system and the first wich introduced electric traction for mainline services.
We had AWERSOME EMUs such as the Ale 582 (FS-Trenitalia) and EB750 (Ferrovie Nord Milano)
And the E86 from FTM (Ferrovia Trento-Malè-Marilleva)
And we ended up with THIS:
This is the new trainset for MCNE (Metrocampania Nord-Est) a private company. It's called Alfa 2.
We had AWERSOME EMUs such as the Ale 582 (FS-Trenitalia) and EB750 (Ferrovie Nord Milano)
And the E86 from FTM (Ferrovia Trento-Malè-Marilleva)
And we ended up with THIS:
This is the new trainset for MCNE (Metrocampania Nord-Est) a private company. It's called Alfa 2.
now here are the most BEAUTIFUL locos
My least favorite North American Locos
I HATE THE PAINT JOB
....what? You hate F40PH's but you love VIA's GPA-30H's which are rebuilt F40's with just a bit more pizzazz....
Good Lord, what were they thinking, it even looks sad.And we ended up with THIS:
This is the new trainset for MCNE (Metrocampania Nord-Est) a private company. It's called Alfa 2.
nathanmallard
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Oh yes, those pathetic bullet trains, what a pityful excuse of a "train", I mean it's not like they run the fastest, most efficient and safest passenger railway system in the world, is it?
A Japanese railway engineer would take one look at the GPA-30Hs with their top speed of what, around 80mph, and laugh.
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nathanmallard said:I mean it's not like they run the fastest, most efficient and safest passenger railway system in the world, is it?
But...the second two are still ugly. No matter how efficient or fast they are, they're still really ugly.
The last one even reminds me of a lying Pinocchio! When i think of a train, i usually don't think about Pinocchio...except now.
watemple said:....what? You hate F40PH's but you love VIA's GPA-30H's which are rebuilt F40's with just a bit more pizzazz....
Yeah, i don't get it either. And i'm sure no one else does, too.
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MeowRailroad
CKRail
That's what I like about em'.
I love stuff like this that looks like it is being held together by string and tape and was fished out of the discount bin at a garage sale.
I love stuff like this that looks like it is being held together by string and tape and was fished out of the discount bin at a garage sale.
Well, if it looks depressed itself... think about the poor railfans wich may see it.
Old Betsy! That piece of junk was one of the first steam locomotives in my part of California. It was a geared 0-4-0. The builder is believed to be Rose & Company of San Francisco, California. Weighing only 7 tons, its life hauling logs on the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Co. was short but it ran for many years as a switcher both at their mill and in the camps. Scrapped in 1937. But I do agree, it is terribly ugly.
nathanmallard
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I was thinking the same thing. Whilst American diesels are not ugly per se, they really aren't particularly attractive. Functional, but not really visually appealing. British and European diesels are much nicer to look at IMO, especially the early ones like the Deltic prototype, the Westerns and Warships, and 'Lion' and 'Kestrel'. The Alco FAs/PAs, the Baldwin RF16s and the F- and E- series streamliners are beautiful though, but the latter might have lasted longer if EMD had come up with a double-cabbed variant.