Missed this thread before... You'll have to subtract one vote for the F59PHI because I think it's the most beautiful (American) engine produced since they stopped making cab units. Maybe it helps that I usually see it in the Amtrak California scheme. I also think that GE wide cabs are the best looking hood units ever produced, so I have to disagree with those votes, too. If it were up to me, we wouldn't call things ugly just because we see them often. I also like the GP30. ...in the eye of the beholder, as the cliche goes... Here's the ones I do think are ugly: SD70ACE CF7 P42 (looks like an evil rabbit) F40PH U boats
The thing is I kinda like the really ugly looking locos, I guess thats why my fav loco is the C636, there is just something cool about running something that is pig ugly
I wouldn't call any locomotive ugly because they all have a charm that "hooked" me as a child, because I love trains, period. I will say that I don't really care for locomotives that are from outside North America, because to me they don't look real to my world. I get the same goosebumps everytime I see a locomotive in motion no matter what it is!
I Think the Ugliest locomotives are as follows- SD70ACe Amtrak's GP15D. Tha Hammerhead RS 12 The "1/2" GG1
My list of uglies would include GE U25B with one piece windshield - looks like a letter box BALDWIN transfer units and that centipede thing ALCO C-415 GE U30CG yep, you can make it even uglier EMD RS1325 the word 'why' springs to mind And to top it all , well i dont think you can beat the MLW RSC-24! Definetely not Canadian Nationals proudest moment! paul
After having chased & shot numerous shortlines, I happen to like the GP8s and GP10s put out by IC/ICG's Paducah shops. Not as nice as an unrebuilt hi-nose first-generation Geep, but they look good to me. And since they can be found almost anywhere these days, you can't get away from 'em. Also, to model ICG or, say, Iowa Interstate or Chicago Central & Pacific, ya gotta have these beasts in your roster. The hi-nose U23Bs I shot on the Georgia Central won't win any beauty contest, all looking like large black cinderblocks, but I suppose as long as they can load up & run, they'll stay employed. Sometimes it isn't necessarily the model, but the paint job they wear, that makes them ugly.
I'd vote for the BL-2 and the DL109. How about slug units? I personally like them, but I suppose one could argue that they are bland.
What sort of slugs are you thinking of? Very few were factory-built (I won't say none, since I believe SBD/CSX owned GE-built slugs), so there's great variety.
Perhaps something like: http://www.trainweb.org/chessie/139Tcs-b&o.jpg http://www.trilliumrailway.com/gallery/168th.jpg Other than nice paint, they look like somethings missing...
My vote would have to also go with the slugs. They just dont look right to me. As far as the other locos.....I like most small nasty switchers. U boats I am not thar crazy about.
I have to argue against the As-616... it might be slightly ugly.. but still a very interesting piece of equipment... I am not a fan of wide cabs of anything... but thats personal opinion... But the most elegent unit to thise day is the EMD E's, especially the E-5 or SP E's
You win Bob. That's a corker! It fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. In defense of European designs... I could say anything from the land that designed the Pontiac Aztec and that horrid Jeep Commander but that would be just untrue (the anything, not the two vehicles).
Since my earlier posts we've had lots of SD70ACE's delivered, i'd like to add a vote for them. No sense of aesthetics to the front end design whatsoever. And i'd like to defend Whoppit's suggestion of the poor old RS1325 - okay there are only two of them, but they are soooo cute! All the style of a GP20 at one end, and businesslike like an SW7 at the other. Okay they might well be accused of schizophrenia, but ugliness? Nah!
I hate GE's wide cab. HATE IT, Burn them all HATE it!!! I used to not hate it, but it's so Ubiquitous that it deserves nothing but hate. In fact, the only Widecab I really like now is the GP60M. Also, it's been mentioned already, but I'm not a fan of the RS-1-3. Those rounded edges just look silly to me.
Guess that's what makes the world go round. The rounded edges are one of the things that make the RS-3 one of my favorite locomotives (within the realm of "diseasels", that is.) Ed
