JonMyrlennBailey
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The weird-looking bogie, axle and wheel styles. They look cartoonish. I like the truck styles up to about the 1980's production GM/EMD locos the best.
Even ALCO and GE engines looked nicer back in the day.
The other weird thing is the nerdy wide cabs which make the front of the engine look like a bus.
Classic carbodies and classic spartan-cab hood units look the neatest.
I like the sounds of the old engine horns better too, more harmonious to the ears.
I like the sounds of the old diesel engines too: the whine of the gear-driven scavenge blowers.
That BNSF below has big fat ugly barrel-like air tanks embedded in the fuel tank instead of the long, thin elegant GM/EMD air tanks.
Even ALCO and GE engines looked nicer back in the day.
The other weird thing is the nerdy wide cabs which make the front of the engine look like a bus.
Classic carbodies and classic spartan-cab hood units look the neatest.
I like the sounds of the old engine horns better too, more harmonious to the ears.
I like the sounds of the old diesel engines too: the whine of the gear-driven scavenge blowers.
That BNSF below has big fat ugly barrel-like air tanks embedded in the fuel tank instead of the long, thin elegant GM/EMD air tanks.
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