What's the ugliest steam loco there is ?...

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I’d have to say what ever the thing was I saw from south Africa a while back. It looked like a mutated UP Big Boy with bright red wheels and had a coal tender that was built onto the back of the cab. Yuck!..

Tracklayer

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any thing with an 0 in it

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The Q1
http://britishrailways.tripod.com/steam/Q1.jpg

Bruce

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TO me

Any of Santa Fe’s double-jointed-boiler Mallet’s. UG-ly! I had a 4-4-6-2 that was so ugly. I refused to run it ,even in the dark.

On the other hand, their 3765, 3776,& 2900 class 4-8-4’s were Gor- geous! Much prettier than 3751.

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You don’t like Beyer-Garratts? http://www.prorail.co.uk/rcjdetail/picofday/AEDlarge.php?id=3543F

For shame!!!

Andre

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Any shay, climax, ect.

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The loco in the link you provided is a bloody beauty queen compared to the one I was referring to on my original post… I wish now I had paid more attention to what it was, but I was so overwhelmed with its ugliness that nothing else mattered at the time.

Tracklayer

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I love steam, but I think anything cab forward is stupid lookin. They are still cooler than diesels, though.

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camelback

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
falls out of chair

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Sorry Aggro, I’m a BIG fan of your work and all, but cab forwards just don’t do it for me. Yours is nice. For a cab forward…if that helps.

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UGLY steam loco? Is there such a thing?

I’ve never seen one I’d call ugly.

Mark.

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Whatever the ugliest steamer may be, on its worst day it’s more beautiful than the best-looking diesel.[:D]

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Some of the more obscure streamlined steam of the 1930s looked like an upside down bath tub on wheels.
http://www.reynaulds.com/Liliput/temp.asp?item=100513
Dave Nelson

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This simply HAS to rank WWWAAAAAAYYYYYY up there;

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All steamers are bueatiful. in australia, where i live, there is this steamer called the 3801, that’s it’s number, if any of you are ever in australia i suguest that you go on it, i have been on it a couple of times.

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Hmmm. Okay, i won’t try to weasel out and say “none”

In the “real world” I can’t think of any I truly dislike. The geared locos could be considered ugly on some bases: Shay, Heisler, Climax. Of course, they’re so ugly it’s cool and they’re my favorites.

In the model world, plenty to pick from, and strangely enough, the less they resemble the prototype, the uglier they are… I will start with my first-ever loco the Tyco “Chattanooga Choo Choo” 0-8-0 with tender drive. Blech.

I’m no fan of the myriad badly-done 0-4-0 “Docksiders” either (and in fact, wasn’t there only a very few of this prototype that ever existed? I think I remember reading something like the B&O had two docksiders once, and that was really it…???)

Ugly models, I could go on-and-on. Ugly prototypes… Nothing other than what I already said. I even rather like the “upside down bathtub” streamliners.

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But… there is no such thing as an ugly steam loco. Some are more picturesque than others, but never was an ugly one. Some are a bit different like the Camelbacks, Old Mother Hubbards, and those cab forward giants, but it is the very thing that makes them things of beauty! Now diseasals… Those are UGLY!!!

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This is a little tank steamer that I found at Point Defiance in WA.

I am not a huge fan of tank engines so to me they are always ugly!!

Sorry bout the loading times on these pics I forgot to make them smaller. [B)]