Engines with a face only a mother could love

I'm guessing that is an early Spanish Talgo train. The track looks like broad gauge (5'6" in Spain and Portugal). Not ugly so much as comical!

Hi Kieffer,

 

The Dutch have an almost limitless selection of weird/ugly trains. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And sometimes they get really upset when a prettier one tries to pass them! 

 

Ladies & Gentlemen,

 IMO the only ugly engine is the one that does not run, these last 2 fit the bill!

PCRR/Dave

Goulburn NSW

The cab car of the two Oregon Talgo Cascade train sets! 

that's the one I was thinking about!

The Ugcela livery.

 

CF7's with the F unit cab!

and that one too

I can't post pics but I think the new Engine for the Cascades Talgo. It looks like a knock off eastern European sneaker.

I wish all of the above identified the loco pictured.

 

I kinda think the BL-2 was good looking, compared to the standard diesel boxes.

WAGR  Y class at Pemberton

Ingalls Shipbuilding made a try at building locos:

 

I was wrong, even with eyeliner, it's not really that pretty . . .

 

Here's another beast from Japan - it looks like it just swallowed a cut of boxcars.

 

 

Hmmmm...   I dunno.  I think you're on to something!!

 

How you'd like to be the brakeman on a crummy standing on the rear platform seeing THAT coming to 'couple up'!?!?  

 

Lucas Gudinov

 

 

 

That's pretty cute for a BL2.  

not real but lionel sure screwed this one up!

 

Hi Nicole,

 

well, the Fyra, you can put the blame on the Belgians and Italians too. And that Boeing 747 without wings on picture 4, okay...

But really really sad is the contraption on the first picture. Imagine all those little innocent kiddies who have to grow up with that view, their poor mums and daddies trying to explain that this vehicle is called a train!

 

regards, Kieffer

Spiffy, that Lionel is real UGLY!  Enough to drive one from model RRing.

 

Ace's picture of the WAGR Class Y is interesting.  Who built that loco, and where is Pemberton?

Hmmm..if some are taking offense at the "styling?" of the GG-1, designed during the

error (uh, era) of "streamlining", such as Chrysler Airflow, "ugly Hupp" (Hupmobile,

and I really like their looks), and the VW bug autos, I an neutral from disinterest, since they never ran near anywhere I have lived.  But I like BL-2's, watched the Monon use them to switch a concrete plant, and think their appearance versus today's boxes designed by a freshman geometry class only indicates another crumbling industry and another reason to live in the past.  I don't think anybody has made a SCALE (just oversized, such as Williams) BL-2, or my RR's mgt. might have checked one out. As for Coffin heaters, used on Denver and Salt Lake Mikados, later relettered for the D&RGW after the 1940's merger and Dotsero Cutoff, if Third Rail had offered that, as they did some NE railroads' Coffin equipped locos, I'd own one.  It was interesting to see the photo of the GM&O Decapod with Coffin...very similar to a D&SL Mikado.  How many railroads owned Coffin locos?  This GM&O one was new to me. And it is interesting to note that the Europeans

were not adverse to innovation in design (putting it politely), and I'd like to see the

offspring of those two that were snuggled up.

 

People who do not appreciate the design beauty of GG1's or BL2's have occipital cortex dysfunction. It's an irreversible neurological malady.   It would be like trying to explain the color blue to a color blind person.

Alan

some of those early diesel-electric box cabs were pretty gruesome too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGR_Y_class

Pemberton tramway Western Australia

 

 

Yes, good point, and there may also be interpretive conceptual dyslexia involved ! 

 

 

Did someone say that anything looked good in a Santa Fe warbonnet scheme?

Sticking with only U.S. trains, Honorable mention goes to the 44 Ton, First Prize to the Bi-Polar and Grand Prize to the GG-1 something only a mother could love!

Hmmm....  This explains a lot of what transpires on a forum like this.

 

It appears that the occipital lobe of der brain is what controls most vision and visual processing.  So, doc, it seems that someone who suffers from cortex dysfunction might also be subject to optical rectalitis?

 

Wouldn't that be the case?

 

Hmmmm....  Yes, I think I see the connection!!

 

Or maybe bipolar disorder.

 

I think this one is an easy winner.  The Japanese Maglev MLX01-90?  At least it can go 361+mph.

 

 

Awww, just to show there's no accounting for taste, I've always liked the Q1 Austerity engines...http://youtu.be/sHfuWnB9ArE

If we are drifting into the 'unconventional' realms, then some of the french 'Aerotrain' variants are not overly easy upon the eyes. 

 

http://sonicbomb.com/iv1.php?v...le=Aérotrain/

 

Well I never thought of any train being ugly but after a couple I saw here, I may have to reevaluate my position.  

 

I just hope I don't have nightmares LOL

GOODGOD!!The first time I seen this.Looks like someone started to build a car.And then decided to make it a train.This hurt my eyes and feelings.

One of the D&H experimental high-pressure steam locomotives

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...ure_steam_locomotive