Best Looking/Prettiest Trains (LARGE IMAGES)

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okhiu

Active member

• Nov 26, 2014

• #121

From Romania

And my personal favorite, recently repainted locomotive in the classic/original paint scheme

 

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judahGrice

Retired Trainz User

• Nov 26, 2014

• #122

for steam i'd say anything designed by Sir Nigel Gresley or SP's GS class.

For diesel i think any EMD/GM SD40-2 in FEC Champion, KCS Belle, DM&E, Conrail (quality logos), the new UPRR livery (lightning stripe w/baby wings) or SOO Line

for electric maybe GG1 or a Canadian National boxcab.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=447621
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=12608
http://www.steamtraingalleries.co.uk/pic_nymr_084.html
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=383481
http://www.railpictures.net/photo/303877/
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=233128&nseq=4

 

Last edited: Nov 26, 2014

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gg14835

Fire Up Cliffside 110!

• Nov 28, 2014

• #123

I love the old NS baldwins! Both the locomotive and the paint scheme!

 

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MeowRailroad

CKRail

• Nov 28, 2014

• #124

What engine model is that? I love Baldwin diesels, electric's, and steam! Looks amazing, can I download it anywhere?

 

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cascaderailroad

New member

• Feb 7, 2015

• #125

 

Last edited: Feb 7, 2015

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Rainbowlicious

Generally Electric

• Feb 16, 2015

• #126

ARR geeps are amazing.

So were the MP15's.

SD70MAC's in the 'Big Mac' paint scheme are verrrryyy nice.

Caught some 4000's/4300's and GP40-2 #3007 in Whittier just yesterday.

 

Last edited: Feb 16, 2015

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Lucy_Hale

New member

• Feb 21, 2015

• #127

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MeowRailroad

CKRail

• Feb 21, 2015

• #128

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wva-usa

New member

• Feb 21, 2015

• #129

Despite being an example of the form follows function rule, with their Elesco feedwater heaters, flying (smokebox-mounted) air-pumps, deck-mounted headlights, and Vanderbilt tenders the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's F-19 class heavy 4-6-2 locomotives were considered to be the manifestation of the Georgian steam locomotive and regarded by some as the prettiest locomotives the C&O ever owned.

In the mid-1940s, all five of the C&O class F-19 Pacifics were rebuilt as 4-6-4 class L-1 Hudsons at the railroad's shops in Huntington, WV. Four wore streamlining; one did not. Only one L-1 survived the torch -- #490, which today resides at the B&O Museum in Baltimore, MD.

 

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MeowRailroad

CKRail

• Feb 21, 2015

• #130

I would like that, but the big top cylinder kind of ruins it for me. I love that tender though!

 

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wva-usa

New member

• Feb 21, 2015

• #131

MeowRailroad said:

I would like that, but the big top cylinder kind of ruins it for me. I love that tender though!

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The "big cylinder" is a Elesco feedwater heater, so it's a form follows function sort of thing. Adding a feedwater heater to a steam locomotive improved the thermodynamic efficiency of the locomotive, as the feedwater heater preheated the water (by using the heat from the exhausted steam flowing from the engines' cylinders) before it was fed into the boiler from the tender. The company name "Elesco" was taken from "Locomotive Superheater Company". "LSCo" is pronounced "El" "Es" "Co" or "Elesco".

On some steam locomotive, such as the NYC J1 Hudsons, the Elesco heaters were slightly sunken into the top of the locomotive's smokebox, and not nearly as prominent in appearance.

 

Last edited: Feb 21, 2015

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• Mar 1, 2015

• #132

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MeowRailroad

CKRail

• Mar 1, 2015

• #133

I can't decide whether I like or dislike Ace's.

 

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AMTRAKwannabe

Norfolk & Western Lives

• Mar 14, 2015

• #134

Locomotives, not trains but still beautiful.