ugly trains

[nicky9499]

Let's play "spot the turd".

It's as though the japanese have taken ten steps backward in the design department over the years.

 

[uracco]

@klambert, I think both types of Networker (plus the 365 with both original and happy train conversion) are simple, clean, modern and attractive designs. Nothing too fussy or awkward.
@nicky9499 Aerodynamics over aesthetics my friend

 

[wkwood]

Alco RSD15 Alligator

 

[cascaderailroad]

Dangerously Ugly

See: Santa Fe's experimental hinged boiler engines http://www.mylargescale.com/Community/Forums/tabid/56/afv/topic/aff/23/aft/125408/Default.aspx

http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=98062&start=1140

 

[opus722]

That first airplane-train-boat thing looks like it needs to be speeding towards an oversize ramp with a certain coyote at the controls.

 

[viesturs]

Onwards to the Cold war!
So, which one is uglier?
The American jet propelled railbus?

Or the Soviet jet proppelled suburban EMU?

 

[cascaderailroad]

IDK ... Both showered bystanders with high velocity debris, and threw ballast rocks at them !

I'm gonna buy a Jet Car with a Rolls Royce jet turbine engine ... that should fly right on the freeway !

Not "OK" for the inner city ! "FAIL"

 

[klambert]

Copying the current fad in the 30s for the railways to streamline their stock, London Underground made an attempt.

 

[rjhowie]

Oh dear but hindsight comes to mind.......

 

[nathanmallard]

That's not too bad-Reminds me of a GWR Diesel Railcar.

 

[cascaderailroad]

In 1902, This Rogers Consolidation was the Great Northern’s answer to smoke nuisance in the Cascade Tunnel. Big motors, working singly or in tandem, Now glide through the 3 ½ mile bore.

This ear-trumpet effect decorated the head-end of the Boston & Lowell’s “Eagle”, back in 1870. Strictly speaking, it was a spark arrester, not a smoke deflector.

 

[jordon412]

Some pretty horrible ones

What in the name is this travesty? It looks like a Budd SPV2000 with some botched plastic surgery.

The car was involved in an accident and instead of repairing the damaged portion, the damage was simply cut out and the area turned into an observation platform.

 

[stormsirens2Backup]

I like this locomotive where can I get this? sure its strange but I like strange machines, I'm talking about the shay engine on page 15

 

[fen_tiger]

Only in the UK can things not appear as they seem to be...

 

[uracco]

That's not a train, its a guided bus way. They may both run on rails, their totally separate things.

 

[Bluewater]

Ok people, Im going to say this once and shut up:

After going through some of the more recent pages of this thread it seems that the Americans are dissing the Europeans and vice versa. It's disgusting. Can we tone it down?

 

[jordon412]

I wouldn't call it ugly, I would classify it as 'unusual', 'different', or 'unique'.

 

[pdkoester]

Ok people, Im going to say this once and shut up:

After going through some of the more recent pages of this thread it seems that the Americans are dissing the Europeans and vice versa. It's disgusting. Can we tone it down?

I agree, but that is old news, and will continue forever.

 

[cascaderailroad]

As will the continuing saga of people re-posting a "Quoted Photo of a dumb Bus, on a railroad track" I think we all need to see that one twice ... on the same page, don't we ?

 

[pfx]

A good number of these have been featured on this thread before but it's still interesting to see them collected together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iajwyx02Hqw