I saw a reference to this is the GG-1 Mystery thread. Wow, esthetics obviously weren't a priority in designing this!
http://www.oregonlive.com/trav..._offers_tours_o.html
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/COM...gos_January_2013.pdfl
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My oh my...
I think it was designed by the same guys that did the 1970 era Winnebago's 
I think they call the cab car after the tow truck from the CARS cartoon movies.
Form deserted function...
Rusty
It makes this spud look downright pretty:
Rusty
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YUCK!!!
Alan
the designer must have been from Winnebego in Iowa!
Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:
It makes this spud look downright pretty:
Rusty
Ahhh yes the Crandall cab...nothing like ruining a perfectly good B unit.
You are correct, Chris, that aesthetics were not important in the design.
That locomotive is NOT the first time that has happened.
Reference the Diplodocus from which the loco has descended.
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Glad somebody has a photo. This thing is so ugly we should ask for the thread to be locked to avoid further offenses against our tender sensibilities. Nobody so far thinks it looks good! The GG1 is quite popular.
I think I may have located the missing link in the Diplodocus / Talgo evolution chain
You beat me to it. I agree 100%. The new Talgo locomotive is another situation where the parents should have been slapped when it was born.
Originally Posted by Rusty Traque:
It makes this spud look downright pretty:
Rusty
Makes an ugly truck.......I refuse to admit it runs on rails.
I agree it's ugly as sin, but I have an idea why it was designed that way:
The above design wouldn't do so hot in a grade-crossing collision. Bilevel cab-control cars and "cabbage" units (not to mention standard locomotives) put the crew much higher than most objects (meaning automobiles) that such a train might plow into.
As it stands, it looks like they tried to design a typical wide-cab diesel front end that blends in with the low-slung Talgos (and still failed). Either that or collision mitigation took priority over everything else (especially seeing as these trains already run under an FRA waiver as it is).
---PCJ
These two new Talgo train sets have been sitting in the Seattle passenger train yard in various poses for about four months! But the power cars have yet to be seen. And the cab cars are just as ugly as the power cars! One at each end!!
It is really hard to call the power cars "locomotives".
Originally Posted by JOVILA:
It is really hard to call the power cars "locomotives".
The power cars aren't locomotives. They have Caterpillar engines for generators for the hotel load, but rely on conventional locomotives for propulsion.
And the trains are really really nice on the inside, where paying customers care more about anyways!
Originally Posted by Owen Thurdee:
I think I may have located the missing link in the Diplodocus / Talgo evolution chain
That picture just bowled me over!
I recall seeing a sketch of the original design. It was only half as ugly (and caught less wind). The present ugly is the result of some government entity requiring there be no obstructions to view from both seats in the cab. Only a flat windshield fulfilled the requirement.
Nathan
comic styling cues taken from Chuggington?
