Ugly STEAM engine? Ain’t no such animal!
Tom [:P]
P&LE 2-8-4’s !!!
Union Pacific Pig Boys & Challengers !!!
AT&SF hinged boiler articulateds !!!
My 2
Roger
Ugly steam?
An oxymoron.
do car’s count
B
Wow, Roger. That’s an uncommon take… I’m not a member of the “they’re all beautiful” camp, but you’re very contrarian on these picks. Especially, I think, with the Challenger, which is usually considered a true classic… You’re welcome to your opinion, of course. Just had to say you did surprise me with this one.
I’d have to say that I can’t realy think of any steam loco’s, or desile’s that i would qualifie as ugly. Some of the very early steam engins of the 1800’s were kinda almost ugly, althought they were more new and unheard of than ugly, but must say that i think most European Locomotives were and still are quite ugly compaired to the worst american Locomotives, I don’t have anything agiansed Europeans but they just can’t make a locomotive worth a crap.
although I’d have to say one of my favorite wheel arangments has to be the 2-10-10-2, any one need some rail straitend
yet another worthless topic stop posting them
Why not just stop reading them? DUH??
Roger
You guy’s keep saying there’s no such thing as an ugly steam loco, BUT DID YOU SEE THIS THING!!!
The only thing that could be worse is if there was a big purple dinosaur (you know the one I’m talking about) in the engineers seat![:D]
Guys we need to remember one very important thing…while Thomas & Friends don’t happen to be our choices for great looking steam engines they play an instrumental part in bringing young ones to TRAINS. We can’t overlook how important this is to keeping the hobby growing.
Not only that but look at all the good things trains have brought to your lives and be glad so many kids seek Thomas and not some of the lesser quality things available to them out there.
I’d much rather be at the Strasburg RR and hearing hundreds of kids screaming “Thomas” than watching them “tagging” boxcars and peoples private property.
Anyway…something to think about.
Roger
This one.
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/philipcarrell/aar
(sorry Philip)
I’m just goofin’, Thomas is great for what he does, but I do believe this is a beauty contest, and that one scarry mug![;)]
AWWW, come on now! When was the last time you saw a streamlined 0-4-0? [:o)]
Wow, that was even weird to type that sentence!
why dont you guys stop creating them Duh you stupid $%&*#@
Guy’s, guy’s,…just having a little fun here. Relax.[8D]
My god, get a life pal.
I think the streamlined 0-4-0 has to be pretty close to the top of the ugly list!
Maybe it moves from UGLY to BIZARRE?
Roger
It is kind of a strange old bird, isn’t it? It’s a fireless loco to boot.
What I can’t figure out is why on earth someone would want to streamline a fireless switcher. What were they smoking?[:p]
I mean, if you ask me, that takes the old saying “beating a dead horse” to a new level![:o)]
from bob t. aw waltersrails, you can not be refering to the C.B.&Qs handsome O1,O2,&O3 2-8-2 locos. O.K. i model the C.B.&Q.and have a few models of there steam engines. some of them are, shall we say, a bit clumsy looking at best, but ugly ? you guys want ugly ? here it is. in 1937 & 1938 the C.B.& Q. applied stainless steel shrouding to two of there 4-6-4s. they where both givin the same name, " aeolus " .(thats greek to me ) before long they where known to all who saw them as " fat allice the goon " thats my candadate for THE ugly steam locomotive !
loathar et al. That is a fireless cooker, so I guess it is a steam locomotive by courtesy - as long as there was a big, fixed industrial boiler available when it needed a charge. When the plant that it switched changed over from steam to electric machinery, it became unemployed.
My personal favorite ugly locomotive is anything that runs on the Mount Washington Cog Railway. Tipped-down boiler (that sits level on the average grade), cylinders between the drivers (geared down to both the drivers and the cogs,) threw more smoke than a J and sounded like it was running twenty times faster than it was.
Second place goes to a shay with a dry boiler. (Lists like a sailboat in a stiff breeze.)