Originally Posted by scale rail:
"Odd-balls you Like..."
Let's see.....Allan comes to mind and Dave Allen.
I was thinking the same thing! I'd add Scott Smith, Farmer Bill and a few others to the list too!
This little home built electric. Don
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Ugly and Bad- That's Good!
Plankowner110 - yup several people have. Unfortunately I don't have pictures but there were two separate individuals who used to attend the York meet and both had their vans done up in a PRR GG1 paint scheme. One was green and the other tuscan. About 15 years ago I was driving out west and was passed by a van done up like the Speeder in your picture.
Sean,
The surviving "Yellowbelly" is 490 in the B&O Museum in Baltimore. A "Search" here may turn up some photos.
Originally Posted by ReadingFan:
Sean,
The surviving "Yellowbelly" is 490 in the B&O Museum in Baltimore. A "Search" here may turn up some photos.
Oh wow thanks! I'm in Delaware an hour away from Baltimore. I got to go see it in person!
J Daddy
The image reminds me of a bulldog snout attached to a greyhound. What the heck was the origin of this graft job? Was this a former B unit? I am not a big fan of the current diesels that to me look more like stacked boxes, or trucks on rails that lack the styling panache of making the utilitarian attractive but this photo demonstrates that ugly has a genealogy. This has to be the ugliest unit I have ever seen. Thanks for posting it. ( I think) I bet any engineer assigned to this took some ribbing. When I was a kid, I hung out at the Mundelein station of the CNS&M.One day, a Sperry Doodlebug showed up and pulled alongside a interurban local about to leave. The motorman ribbed the other engineer mercilessly about how ugly his ride was, which soon became an exchange on who had the ugliest equipment that went on for some time much to my amusement.
There are boxes on wheels that are simply just boxes, which, come to think of it this might fall into this thread as a oddball.
Re: Electroliner's Photo:
So THAT is where the Limon to Colorado Springs Rock Island cabbed B unitis went to
live out their usefulness...pulling Rock Island commuter trains around Chicago!! And
in paint quite different from the red and silver of their glory days hauling tourists to
Pikes Peak. While none of the major manufacturers will ever make these, at least
they have two liveries and two different areas and roles that they served in. And
these were not EMD, but Baldwin's or Alco's? (don't remember) but that makes them
harder to kitbash.
Originally Posted by electroliner:
J Daddy
The image reminds me of a bulldog snout attached to a greyhound. What the heck was the origin of this graft job? Was this a former B unit? I am not a big fan of the current diesels that to me look more like stacked boxes, or trucks on rails that lack the styling panache of making the utilitarian attractive but this photo demonstrates that ugly has a genealogy. This has to be the ugliest unit I have ever seen. Thanks for posting it. ( I think)
The engine is a EMD demonstrator for the Santa Fe Railroad. Its designation is a DP 3500... never caught on but yeah it fits the fugglly bill... I like your analogy of the bull dog look.
Originally Posted by J Daddy:
Originally Posted by electroliner:
J Daddy
The image reminds me of a bulldog snout attached to a greyhound. What the heck was the origin of this graft job? Was this a former B unit? I am not a big fan of the current diesels that to me look more like stacked boxes, or trucks on rails that lack the styling panache of making the utilitarian attractive but this photo demonstrates that ugly has a genealogy. This has to be the ugliest unit I have ever seen. Thanks for posting it. ( I think)
The engine is a EMD demonstrator for the Santa Fe Railroad. Its designation is a DP 3500... never caught on but yeah it fits the fugglly bill... I like your analogy of the bull dog look.
That ain't no demonstrator.
It's rebuilt from the 1 of the "Amos and Andy" 1-1A semi-streamlined boxcab pair originally built for "The Chief." The companion 1A was rebuilt as a B-B freight locomotive.
Rusty
Rusty, thanks for clarifying... I could not find anymore info on it. What ever happened to the dang thing?
Scraped, as was the former 1A. Don't have my books handy as to when.
Rusty
looks like their were 5 EMC demonstrators that went to quite a few railroads. The Santa Fe seemed to be a target railroad to move to "dieselization". The GM designers put the bull dog face on it at first and were in colors "Olive Green with Cobalt Blue and Sarasota Blue stripes separated by pinstripes of Crimson and Tuscan Red" ... absolutely fugly colors too..
The picture below shows the same unit after its war bonnet rebuild and numbered as 1C, the other was designated a freight engine number 10... They were both scrapped in 1952...
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Baldwin DR-6-4-1500 with 'Babyface' car body
The ATSF SWBLW 'Beep'
Originally Posted by Lucas Liska:
The ATSF SWBLW 'Beep'
Oooo. Now THAT was a nasty piece of work!
Rusty
Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:
Originally Posted by Lucas Liska:
The ATSF SWBLW 'Beep'
Oooo. Now THAT was a nasty piece of work!
Rusty
I actually don't think it is ugly, different but nothing really unusual considering the other contenders for the title.
Jerry
You see that boat?.. it's a train!
I love those odd looking engines, this one the L5 but the FF-1 too and the DD-1 (as mentioned earlier).. and all the pennsys electrics in fact.
I like Ed Boyle sometimes
Ed let me rub his head for luck at York a while back. It worked, too.
The Seaboard Systems BQ23-7s I remember them with the plated over cab windows in southeastern VA back in the 80s. I just like them.
