ugly trains
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looks like the thng went into a tunnel, got it's funnel knocked off, and somebody went and borrowed somebody's chimeny off their house to replace it:hehe:
oh, and Steamdemon, that engine looks just plain old disturbing. like a cross between Bob the Builder and Thomas.
I'll be making one, and that's a promise.
You better start before I do......if you get a good set of drawings, let me know.
Either way, anything you build is better then what I can do....hell you gave the SDP's a reason to exist in a higher version of Trainz.
bassist118
Suffering for his art.
Well spoken Pfx,
Don't forget our class 45 and 46 which are the same loco just the electrics being built in a different place.... :hehe:
And our class 89 has to be on of the worst looking of all trains...
Like I said in a earlier post it is mainly geography and loading gauge that shapes locos more than anything... The US locos have to travel large distances between refueling stops.. The US has longer and steeper gradients so they need larger locos while making sure it can still go round bends with out too much hangover so they don't collide with an oncoming train on the other line and they still need to hook up 3 or 4 locos to haul the mile long trains they have over there (I used to think as a Kid they were showing off a bit 'everything's bigger and larger in the US' but you tend to forget about things like the Rocky Mountains, The Cascades and The Appalachians).... The steepest mainline gradient is the Licky Incline 2 miles of 1 in 37 that's quiet shallow for a US loco and we sometimes need bankers...
Our locos have relatively short runs because our country is quite small just over 500 miles as the crow flies from Penzance to Aberdeen and we have relatively few mountain ranges only in the Highlands and North Wales and then just a few lumps and bumps so we don't need huge thumping great beasts and because of our small loading gauge all our locos are quite quaint in comparison and also we like to keep fine lines on our locos we can do this because our locos spend longer in the sheds so have more time to be maintained, because of the large distances US locos cover in one trip which can take 2 or3 days there is lees time for maintenance so everything has to be done on the fly so everything is bolted onto the outside (generaly) so it all can be easily maintained......
So in a nutshell.... to slag off a countries locos is the same as slagging off its geography and the US has some beautiful geography.
Just my £3 worth (due to inflation :hehe
Andy
Btw Hauntedclipp has that had an accident with a 17th century Mansion
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Right enough Andy. The 89 is certainly not one of the prettier modern locos. Haha. See it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:89001_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG it's like the ugly cousin of a Class 43 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EMT_HST_43058_Leicester_AB1.JPG
It's true what you say about loco evolution though, very much influenced by use and geography. Let's say we just solved that argument and it won't surface again (I wish).
It's true what you say about loco evolution though, very much influenced by use and geography. Let's say we just solved that argument and it won't surface again (I wish).
The cab does look squashed because is very short in both lenght and hight compared to most EMD units and in relation to the rest of the locomotive. Its set up that way to accomodate the Pantograph equipment, but I dont think a very tall person could fit in the cab. Not the worst looking unit I have seen, I think it looks better than the PRR GG1.
Paul
Paul
, the GM10B, was already featured maybe, what, 10 pages ago?donjgatlin
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I love this train too! Siemens has been making some nice models! Whats sad though is that Amtrak ordered new loco's from Siemens, but they aren't the Valero's..... Sigh.
simulatortrain
jointed freaking rails
The GM6C was built on a standard SD40-2 frame. The main reason the cab looks smaller than an SD40-2 cab is that there are no cabinets underneath it, instead it is placed directly on the walkway. To match the resulting lower windshield height, the nose is not as tall as an EMD standard cab nose.
thats because California made the to cars that have fins and Italy made the pendulem cars but they do fit up here in Washington with the sounder equipmentThat Talgo trainset that runs somewhere up in the pacific northwest....sort of looks like a caterpillar that someone stepped on.
EDIT:ugly
no offense but it is a bad locomotive in so many ways
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simulatortrain
jointed freaking rails
simulatortrain
jointed freaking rails
It doesn't look near as scary as this bigger monster: http://www.steamlocomotive.com/allegheny/vgn902.jpg
(Link is not ugly)
better if it was in DM&IR paint
simulatortrain
jointed freaking rails
If it was a yellowstone...
Yee,that loco needs a wash.