The 5 Best Looking Electric Locomotives Ever Made

There is only one-------GG1

Matt I like your choices.  I'd put the EP-4 as 2nd right behind the GG1. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFo04sZavo

Those howling wolves look pretty good to me. I've got a real nice looking Conrail E44, wearing the blue livery.

Electric North American locomotives from the past had/have an Industrial thing going on, re: their looks; and are much more appealing to me than the standard definition of good looks.

I have the other P5a type, the PRR box cab version; another nice looking box.

I've got a New Haven EP3 that did the porch thing long before EMD stretched their undersized SD40's, by adding a dance floor to the front and back.

Big, quirky and black, looking like two back-to-back old school locomotives with a fort in-between, my EP-2 Bi-Polar.

I don't have one, but I like the Joe's.

Rick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc-0icW_F4g

These unique EMD built gf6c's are pretty cool looking, too. At approx. the 12:45 mark of the video, a great scene is captured - CN5507, itself a fine looking specimen, sporting a Canadian cab, meets up with the BCR electrics.

Rick

I agree with Nick about the Little Joe, but I think the Hiawatha color scheme shows it off to better advantage. I like the sharply angled nose - gives it more of a streamlined Deco look. 

The maroon in this shot looks a bit brown because the photo was shot on an overcast day. This one is on display at Deer Lodge, Montana.

This may be heresy, but I've always considered the DB class 103 (Formerly the E03) electric to be a most beautiful electric locomotive. I especially like the early models in TEE colours with full skirting, but I couldn't find a good picture of one of those.

1 - NYC P2 boxcab - elegant and classy (and scrapped - big surprise)

2 - NH streamlined EP's - freight and passenger

3 - PC (okay, PRR) E44 Bricks

4 - Because they remind me of each other so much: CMStP&P Joes; VGN

     streamlined; GN streamlined (I forget the classes)

5 - and the PRR "Big Liz" 2-C-C-2 boxcab

Also-rans: NYC S-1/S-2/S-3 and the PRR L-5.

And the rest of them; electrics are cool.

Lionel's postwar version of the Great Northern EP-5, hand's down.

I nominate CNR 6710 which ran for 76 years, 8 months, 11 days, and ten hours after it first went into service.

Read more about it here:

http://raakone.hubpages.com/hu...e-Mount-Royal-Tunnel

Marek

Any GG1.  They stand tall,head and shoulders above all others even to this day I do believe. 

Norm Rish

I'll have to go with the GG1-- best American electric. Then There are the others: French TGV, and just about all of the various Shinkansen types.

#1 Solid stripe, dark green locomotive enamel, GG1.

#2 Solid stripe, tuscan red, GG1

#3 Class E44 in Pennsylvania colors

#4 P5a boxcab

#5 P5a modified

Sorry folks, but I grew up in Philadelphia!

Wow!  The CNR 6710 has the GG1 beat by about 25 years, although no direct fault of the GG1 since it was the electric supply that was changed at the catenary that forced them to retire.

They look kind of like the B1 Rats:

Believe, the initial reason for retiring the GG1's was due to cracked frame problems.

Someone will correct me if i am wrong

I have always been a sucker for this one:

The GG-1 is just an EP-3 with a fancy body and the insides rearranged to cook the crew. So I'd go with:

1. EP-3 'Flat Bottom' in dark green with the gold stripes and lettering.

2. EP-5 'Jet' in the pre-McGinnis pin-stripe scheme.

3. EL-C/EF-4 in VGN or NH paint schemes.

4. Class 373 'Eurostar' power car/loco

5. "Little Joe" EF-4

I like this guy..

Joe 

1-Little Joe

2-bipolar

3-Westinghouse quill

4-GE Box Cab

5-nothing qualifies 

Do you see a theme here?

Don

New Haven EP4/EF3 for sure, then the NYCS/CUT P1a, then the GG1, and then either the Lil' Joe or the GN W1.  Then plug in (sorry) the PRR E44, and the NYCS S1 and PRR P5a modified.