Railwoodman
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Woo woo woo How do you call this ugly
Maybe odd , OK I'll give ya odd , But ugly noway ..
Matt
Maybe odd , OK I'll give ya odd , But ugly noway ..
Matt
ugly trains
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I bet if you did reskin a loco to match this, you would get laughed off the DLS. Who would think it!
If you're talking about jonwary's picture, you can see 'VMV' spray-painted on the side of the cab. VMV was a locomotive rebuilder, and possibly had a fleet of locomotives to lease. I know that they had a shop in Paducah and rebuilt several Burlington Northern GP30's into GP39V's. I supposed the diesel in the picture is a diesel that VMV purchased and had to replace several sections of the body and just used what they had laying around. They just hadn't painted it yet into one uniform paint scheme.
THOMAS2000
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Oh good lord! What even is that??!! :hehe::hehe::hehe:
I take it, that it was only experimental? If so, what railway, when, and name?
I take it, that it was only experimental? If so, what railway, when, and name?
cascaderailroad
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When ugly trains have ugly babies
SuperSpeedMaglev
Wonderfully Old Fashioned
Found this today and I'm just wondering... WHAT is with the awkward design on this engine? I just don't get it..
(For the record, I did a reverse image search as the original image was of poor quality and didn't show it off well enough)
Found this today and I'm just wondering... WHAT is with the awkward design on this engine? I just don't get it..
(For the record, I did a reverse image search as the original image was of poor quality and didn't show it off well enough)
Here's the answer: http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/USAhp/USAhp.htm
nathanmallard
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Looks like a high pressure watertube boiler of the kind fitted to LNER 10000, otherwise known as 'Hush Hush' due to its secrecy.
cascaderailroad
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The D&H sure had one heck of a long run of "Ugly"
http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSE...SAhp/USAhp.htm
Regrettably the L F Loree proved unreliable, one long-suffering D&H employee is recorded as saying "Every time we sent her out, a machine shop had to go with her".
http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSE...SAhp/USAhp.htm
Regrettably the L F Loree proved unreliable, one long-suffering D&H employee is recorded as saying "Every time we sent her out, a machine shop had to go with her".
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cascaderailroad
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Santa Fe F3 AA BEEF Diesel Locomotive
cascaderailroad
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Not an ugly train ... Build 1944 by Baldwin in Eddystone Pa
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Could this even be real? I mean, as in not Photoshopped? Perhaps it was an exhibition oddity only? I can't see how something like that would even take a curve!...
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It could probably take a curve if it was engineered right, but it would joust any oncoming train on a second track, or just anything along side a single track. You MIGHT be able to do it with
a Meyer configuration (where both engines swivel, like a modern diesel) but even then, I doubt you wouldn't have to re-engineer most of your line.
Or if you're insane you could try what the Santa Fe DID try and make the boiler flex in the middle, because that went well. :hehe:
The Berlinerwerke worked with Baldwin to build #5050 and it proved its mettle and then some! Unfortunately, as so often happened to the BW after the War, diesels took over and that was the end of the 5050 class!We have high hopes that we can find a photograph of this monster. A photo of the HO scale model George Ersatz built to help to convince Santa Fé management of the feasibility of the design turned up
cascaderailroad
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The fug ugly, low rider, batman train ... does it again ... :'(
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simulatortrain
jointed freaking rails
Didn't expect for my old 4-10-10-6 drawing to resurface like that, especially with the other images!
RailFan500CA
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Oh boy,the batman train is sure ugly,I have no clue who came up with that type of look.