Best Looking/Prettiest Trains (LARGE IMAGES)

[okhiu]

From Romania

And my personal favorite, recently repainted locomotive in the classic/original paint scheme

 

[judahGrice]

for steam i'd say anything designed by Sir Nigel Gresley or SP's GS class.

For diesel i think any EMD/GM SD40-2 in FEC Champion, KCS Belle, DM&E, Conrail (quality logos), the new UPRR livery (lightning stripe w/baby wings) or SOO Line

for electric maybe GG1 or a Canadian National boxcab.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=447621
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=12608
http://www.steamtraingalleries.co.uk/pic_nymr_084.html
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=383481
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/303877/
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=233128&nseq=4

 

[gg14835]

I love the old NS baldwins! Both the locomotive and the paint scheme!

 

[MeowRailroad]

What engine model is that? I love Baldwin diesels, electric's, and steam! Looks amazing, can I download it anywhere?

 

[cascaderailroad]

 

[Rainbowlicious]

ARR geeps are amazing.

So were the MP15's.

SD70MAC's in the 'Big Mac' paint scheme are verrrryyy nice.

Caught some 4000's/4300's and GP40-2 #3007 in Whittier just yesterday.

 

[Lucy_Hale]

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[MeowRailroad]

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[wva-usa]

Despite being an example of the form follows function rule, with their Elesco feedwater heaters, flying (smokebox-mounted) air-pumps, deck-mounted headlights, and Vanderbilt tenders the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's F-19 class heavy 4-6-2 locomotives were considered to be the manifestation of the Georgian steam locomotive and regarded by some as the prettiest locomotives the C&O ever owned.

In the mid-1940s, all five of the C&O class F-19 Pacifics were rebuilt as 4-6-4 class L-1 Hudsons at the railroad's shops in Huntington, WV. Four wore streamlining; one did not. Only one L-1 survived the torch -- #490, which today resides at the B&O Museum in Baltimore, MD.

 

[MeowRailroad]

I would like that, but the big top cylinder kind of ruins it for me. I love that tender though!

 

[wva-usa]

I would like that, but the big top cylinder kind of ruins it for me. I love that tender though!

The "big cylinder" is a Elesco feedwater heater, so it's a form follows function sort of thing. Adding a feedwater heater to a steam locomotive improved the thermodynamic efficiency of the locomotive, as the feedwater heater preheated the water (by using the heat from the exhausted steam flowing from the engines' cylinders) before it was fed into the boiler from the tender. The company name "Elesco" was taken from "Locomotive Superheater Company". "LSCo" is pronounced "El" "Es" "Co" or "Elesco".

On some steam locomotive, such as the NYC J1 Hudsons, the Elesco heaters were slightly sunken into the top of the locomotive's smokebox, and not nearly as prominent in appearance.

 

[289v8]

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[MeowRailroad]

I can't decide whether I like or dislike Ace's.

 

[AMTRAKwannabe]

Locomotives, not trains but still beautiful.