ugly trains

[David111767]

If you're talking about the infamous 'Holman Horror', then that was already explained in detail earlier in this thread - it was just a fraud concocted by con artists trying to rort the stock market (as any mechanical engineer even remotely competent at the time would have said, 'there is no way that would work how it was meant to').

Apparently though people were gullible enough that the scammers managed to do the same trick twice in fact. From all reports the engines used in the scam ended up being rebuilt as conventional locomotives which had more or less normal working lives once their notorious pasts were forgotten.

Sorry if this has been explained before, but what exactly was the "Intended" point of the locomotive?

 

[Enkidoh]

It was a scam basically - locomotive 'snake oil' designed purely to attract unsuspecting and mechanically illiterate investors to invest money in the 'project', which the unscrupulous con artists would run off with. Copying and pasting the earlier post about it goes into more detail (sadly the page that listed the locomotive seems to have disappeared):

It was a stock market swindle. The Holman Locomotive built the locomotive in 1887, marketing it as a revolutionary new propulsion system. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of mechanics ridiculed it, but that didn't stop naive investors pouring their life savings into it. The company went bust, and the owners ran off with the money.


10 years later they did it again, but this time with a loco from Baldwin.

So yeah, it showed even then, 'caveat emptor' was the rule when it came to investing in new technologies.

 

[klambert]

The GT3 Gas turbine Locomotive, ugly, or just plain unusual?

New London Underground tube train, looks a but like a worm.

 

[captainkman]

GT3 wasn't ugly but the new 'tube train' does look like a worm. Yuck.

More info on the Holman Horror: http://douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/holman/holman.htm

 

[Bluewater]

I agree, I'm gonna miss the Acela Express engines :'(

They're replacing the AEM-7's and HHP's. Not the Acela trainsets


--Bluewater, The Conrail Guru

 

[pfx]

The GT3 looks fantastic. Fortunately, that Tube train is but a concept for now although if you ignore the cab front, it essentially looks the same as any other modern Tube stock.

 

[jadebullet]

I like the GT3, though it looks rather unimpressed.

 

[sawyer811]

yeah, it does have that "face only a mother could love" look, coupled with what appears to be an Eeyore Personality....

 

[simulatortrain]

They're replacing the AEM-7's and HHP's. Not the Acela trainsets


--Bluewater, The Conrail Guru

The Acela sets are on the second half of their working lives... so yes, they are being replaced.

 

[PerRock]

The Acela sets are on the second half of their working lives... so yes, they are being replaced.

But not by the ACS-64 nor anytime soon. They've only talked about replacing them, nothing more.

peter

 

[cascaderailroad]

Why does every one have to quote a photo ... now I gotta' delete my photo.
http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/8/4/9/1849.1157590800.jpg

Edit: To each his own the S2 is kinda fun to run !

 

[chickenlover]

I could not dissagree but the ugliest train is the PRR S2 in trainz (no offence to creator).

 

[viesturs]

Now this must be the ugliest train. A fairly nice looking DR1A that sadly has been rebuilt in Ukraine. KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS!

 

[uracco]

Latvia is the best country in the world because: they turn perfectly nice looking trains into eyeball melting metal boxes from Ukraine!

 

[Bluewater]

I'm sorry British people, but your Deltics.......ugh, they just give me the creeps..

 

[haddock56]

Now this must be the ugliest train. A fairly nice looking DR1A that sadly has been rebuilt in Ukraine. KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS!

O.O *grabs shotgun and shoots the train full of holes* What the f*** is that damned thing? That ain't even a train its so ugly!

 

[bentrain14]

O.O *grabs shotgun and shoots the train full of holes* What the f*** is that damned thing? That ain't even a train its so ugly!

Major thumbs up to this guy.

 

[viesturs]

Latvia is the best country in the world because: they turn perfectly nice looking trains into eyeball melting metal boxes from Ukraine!

The rebuilding and new design is entirely of Ukrainian origin. Latvia didn't do this
EDIT: Actually your sentece doesn't make much sense.

 

[cascaderailroad]

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[captainkman]

Those are lovely engines, in fact, I'd put them in the thread for beautiful ones.

Kieran.