Ugliest locomotive

[Trainguy76]

Would that be this?

[rgarber]

That's it! UUUUGGLLLYYY! - Rich

[petebauer]

Oh common, that's kind of futuristic ... or something. It's not ugly just ... different.

[MadMike1024]

Okay I see it fine.

Did that thing ever go into production? I haven't ever seen one in action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_U50

Apparently the U50Bs were built using the power trucks and bolsters from the Veranda and U50Cs from the 50 series turbines. SP got three U50Bs, and the UP got three U50Bs. They really did go into service. They were two GE U25s on a single frame, and each prime mover drove one set of trucks! 15,000 HP...

[pwillard]

Eye of the beholder... and all... but to me... not much is uglier than the BL-2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_BL2

[ErikGorbiHamilton]

/bump


Alas, 5 years have gone by and some UGLY locomotives have been sketched/produced.


Lets revamp this up shall we?

My pick: The new talgo train set up here in the northwest. Saw it on my way home from school. Nicked named it FUBAR ever since i layed eyes on it.

[gtrtroger]

I think that U50 is sexy.....
It's a UP; how can that be a bad thing....

[JohnTrainHead]

Nobody thought about any of these?

[Ghettofab75]

Anything british? (ducks for cover)

Kevo

[DrewG]

I love it but the LRC is quite the ugly duckling.


Also the new Go Transit Cab Cars are being delivered...

[CSXK921]

just because there are WAY to many of them.

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[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Baldwin "Babyface":

ALCo had a similar early passenger hood unit.

PRR S1 and steamlined K4 I find ugly.


PRR S2 steam turbine and Q2 Duplex look great though, IMO. They are the Ugly Brutes.



Reading "Crusader" and other rebuilt Pacifics with streamlining using too much frill and lacking 'taste'.

[RickKfoury]

This thing...the Krauss-Maffei ML 4000 C'C'


This one too, not sure what model


And the BQ23-7

[JohnTrainHead]

Anything british? (ducks for cover)

Kevo

Pictures of ugly British trains? Here you go! https://www.google.com/search?q=British+trains&rlz=1C1ASUC_enUS624US624&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=daWBVeDEM8iCsAXCsIOQBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=965

Just kidding! I actually like older British trains a lot.

[OlPaint]

The strangle looking D&RGW loco that RickKFoury posted above is a Krauss-Maffei class ML4000C'C' Diesel-Hydraulic locomotive built by Krauss-Maffei of Munich, Germany and which were delivered to two U.S. railroads (Denver & Rio Grande Western, three units, and Southern Pacific, three units) in August 1961.

DieselHydraulic.jpg

While very much has been written and repeated about locomotive design in the United States up until the time that the arrangements were made to construct these units and the effect this had on the desire to increase unit horsepower, very little has been presented in the English language in a brief form to explain the background behind their development in Germany.

OlPaint