The original series was in my opinion the best. George Carlin was the best narrator they had. And I thought Thomas was an 0-6-0 Terrier.....oh well, learn something new every day.
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The original series was in my opinion the best. George Carlin was the best narrator they had. And I thought Thomas was an 0-6-0 Terrier.....oh well, learn something new every day.
Blutorse4792
Now T:ANE I can get into
captainkman
You are reading this.
Stepney is a Terrier (A1X). I thought Thomas was a 3F 'Jinty' at the start, until I learned that the Jinties never had extended water tanks.
And Ringo was the best narrator IMHO. He was so good I named my budgerigar after him.
@nathanmallard:
1. I like it. I like it a lot.
2. Not too crash-hot on the paint scheme, but I like the huge smoke deflectors.
3. The LMS. Who could hate them. I still prefer the unstreamlined locos though.
4. The mini A1/A3. Who could hate it either. Lovely clean lines, not disturbed by pipes, and the curved running board.
Kieran.
Steamdemon
Pizza Delivery Train
Looks like a summerhouse on rails.
nathanmallard
Well-known member
Yeah, I think people are misinterpreting my post now. I like all of the trains I listed, that post was in response to someone saying all European trains were ugly.
nathanmallard
Well-known member
It's not the best passenger train we can come up with. Meet the APT:
Also, as this is an ugly trains thread, here's the Class 446, the ugliest thing to run in Britain:
OK, maybe not the ugliest. The 458 is pretty terrible:
The 460 is just horrible:
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Steamdemon
Pizza Delivery Train
The 460 looks like it's derping. Also, looks like it was designed by a child.
It's not the best passenger train we can come up with. Meet the APT:
Also, as this is an ugly trains thread, here's the Class 446, the ugliest thing to run in Britain:
OK, maybe not the ugliest. The 458 is pretty terrible:
The 460 is just horrible:
Those should be scrapped. The 446, 458, and 460 look like aliens...............................................
cascaderailroad
New member
PRR DD1 guts:
PRR R1
Where Lionell got its idea
PRR R1
Where Lionell got its idea
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Teach me, what is this derping? Heard that word before, derp, now derping?
nathanmallard
Well-known member
I like the PRR R1, it looks like a fun-sized GG1. The wheels are photo-shopped on that electric, surely? It doesn't look like it can go round corners!
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Many variations out of the derp.
Derp - Derpen - Derpish - Derpen - Derpy - Derpify - Derping - Derptastic - Derpisplosion - Derptacular - Derpsauce - Derpsome - Derply - Etc..
qassaquyangli
The Flying Cloud
If your talking about the "...lionel got its idea.." part...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Road_class_EP-2
nathanmallard
Well-known member
More ugly coming up! Let's start with the Q1:
Ouch. By far the ugliest steam locomotive to run in the UK, perhaps the world?
This might of looked good if they'd tried a bit harder:
No wonder nobody ordered this thing...
Ouch. By far the ugliest steam locomotive to run in the UK, perhaps the world?
This might of looked good if they'd tried a bit harder:
No wonder nobody ordered this thing...
Steamdemon
Pizza Delivery Train
Can't the Q1 cover up it's pistons? It looks wierd.
meyshollop
South Coast Trainz
The Q1 was designed to use as little metal as possible, both to save weight (So that it had the highest route availability possible) and because it was designed as an austerity locomotive during WWII, so Oliver Bullied produced a design using the minimum amount of materials, and without any superfluous casings etc.
Despite having an.... interesting visual appearance, they did the job they were designed for very well....
Meyshollop
Despite having an.... interesting visual appearance, they did the job they were designed for very well....
Meyshollop
Another thing I realised when looking at Q1 pictures; the shape of the boiler covering had a reason. The sections are basically inverted U sections which only required simple rolling to produce the shape. As it was wartime, the railway workshops, like other industries, were short of skilled labour. Therefore it seems to me that one of the reasons that Bulleid chose this was to enable it to be done by semi-skilled labour. Interestingly there is a model of of a "Q1" pacific in the small collections of the National Railway Museum whose reason for being made is not known. A drawing of this by John Click, who worked with Bulleid, appeared recently in one of our Railway magazines (I forget which) so it may have been a joke on his part.
magickmaker
New member
Actually, Lionel based their early electric locomotives off the NYC S1.
