The GE U-50 gets my overwhelming vote.
I had no Idea tht there ever was an ugly diesel, and don’t derate the Union Pacific.
I agree, I believe there are no ugly diesels, but if I had to pick, I would chose the BQ23-7 as my pix.
How about those European ones that look like a '60s bus on railroad tracks? Ugly!
In fact looks very familiar.
At’s agoodin’! (Texas for That’s a good one).
Ah, lest we forget ALCOs giant C855, of which only two were built with a cab, and a cabless “center” unit. That unit is the all-time champ. They were UP60,60B,61.Their performance left a lot to be desired, and UP stored them for most of their brief time on UP’s roster…
Anything painted SPSF Kodachrome. Love the film, but hate the color scheme sharing its name.
alstom,
Isn’t CSX now only a two-color scheme?
I liked the grey, but I do not like the Blue/Yellow only scheme.
When I was a kid I hated the UP loco in my trainset. It seemed too much like a toy. I painted it all black like the NS diesels I was used to seeing. NS seemed “all business”!
Obviously beauty is in the eye of the beholder but you can make a case against a number including but not limited to; the European ones in an earlier post, Alco DL-109, GE P-40/42,
GM BL-2.
The list goes on…
Others will think those attractive.
Dale
Those are all good examples. Please don’t get your feelings hurt. We’re just having fun.
Has to be the BL1 and BL2. Why EMD designed an engine that bad is beyond me . Ranks up there with the Ford Edsel.
[:D] I Think it is the ugliest diesel
Nothing wrong with the V200 - that loco is very important historically. It’s something of a symbol of the post-war regeneration of Germany and several survive today. It was the grandfather of a whole family of diesel-hydraulic locos too, some of which made it across the channel (the BR “Warship” class locos were effectively V200s in smaller bodyshells).
For me it would have to be the new “styled” locos we’re now getting. Anyone else noticed that new locos seem to be designed to look “cute” - not a good look for something that big and heavy! You can have both elegance and a purposeful-looking machine (as shown by the E-units and other carbody units of that era) so why do we get locos looking as though they’ve melted into a shapeless blob now? All the character of the old trains is being lost to the new characterless equipment.
From what I understand it was to be the first “road switcher” and the engineering may have looked ok on the drawing boards but didn’t turn out that way on the manufacturing floor. Even after they got past that one, there were models with high noses before they got today’s body style with better visibility.
The early Geeps were in many cases set up to run long hood forward so you had a diesel with a steam engine’s visibility.
Design simply matures with time and experience.
Dale
I think the ugliest diesel would be any one that’s painted Armour Yellow & Gray!
Roger
What about those German units that UP and SP bought? I think the BL2 was a good looking locomotive!
NO ugly diseasels??? Surely you jest!!! They’re ALL ugly (well, maybe the E7, E8, and E9 were a little less ugly than most). [swg]
But, in all seriousness, how could anyone think a BL2 is not ugly? And, then there’s the GP30…another study in ugliness. These two are the wildebeests of the railroad world. [(-D] [(-D] [(-D]
Chuck
PS: Before you bother flaming me for this post, I should tell you that I’m not going to monitor this thread and won’t see your words of indignation. [:D]
No problem, beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!!
U50 here as well
The only ugly engines are those on the dead line about to go under the scrappers torch, I would love to see a BL-2 still under power no matter how ugly it was.[:(]