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mynameismike
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 11:37 pm
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While recently researching South African Garratt locomotives I came across this
http://users.powernet.co.uk/hamilton/bgpix/Plmabt1.jpg
I think this hast to take the cake as one of the most fugly kettles ever.
Anyone seen anything worse?
"The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives." - Winston Churchill
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Ballast_Plough
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 11:41 pm
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Any double ended Farley or any cab forward steamer.
My pics here - and the Forsayth Goods here!
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Johnmc
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BrianB
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 8:39 am
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| mynameismike wrote: | While recently researching South African Garratt locomotives I came across this
http://users.powernet.co.uk/hamilton/bgpix/Plmabt1.jpg
I think this hast to take the cake as one of the most fugly kettles ever.
Anyone seen anything worse? |
Actually - that's the Algerian Railways garratt - 4-6-2 + 2-6-4.
It was at one stage in 1938 intended to be modified for use in NSW as a 4-6-4 + 4-6-4 and used as an Express passenger locomotive. Harold Young went on a trip to Algerian and rode on this locomotive and was very impressed by it. However, Chief Commissioner Hartigan rejected the proposal.
Reference source - 38, John Thompson, Eveleigh Press, 1992 - pages 7 to 10.
Aren't we lucky that the magnificent 38 class Pacifics were built instead!!!!
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Aaron
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:22 pm
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I was almost going to nominate the Britain's No 10000, as the fugliest loco ever to roll the rails. But then I was reminded that of course the CLEAR winner is:
| BrianB wrote: | | 38 class Pacifics |
How could I have over looked them...
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mynameismike
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8050
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:22 pm
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Anything South Australian. 
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r707
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:21 pm
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| 8050 wrote: | | Anything South Australian. |
Your name suggests you are from NSW or at least like NSW locomotives, kind of peculiar considering
48's and 830's are practically the same, as are 44's/930's, 700's/442's, 42's/GM's, PL's/DA's
Confucius Say man who fart in church sits in his own pew
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8050
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SMR30
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 2:55 pm
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Not that fugly but when gunzelling in the hunter seing 82 and 90 every hour gets boring after a while so gotta head north to Werris Creek to see stuff that has more grunt and noise, the old Alco or GM loco engine sound dose justice over EMD smeg anyday, even the horns on these older things have more style, 82 and 90 class horns are to plain with no character.
With steam I like pretty much anything.
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T251
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:26 pm
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8050, what about the magnificent T class steamer?
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SMR30
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:54 pm
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T class are awesome, I like there bulky look.
With SAR steam locos I wish that a 720 was still around, but fave SA class would be the 700 class followed closely by the RX class.
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squeekazoid
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:33 am
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VLs! and SCTs! 
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Somebody in the WWW
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 3:02 pm
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Why hasn't anybody nominated the NR class yet?
"The trains at Pennant Hills run roughly every half hour. Nobody in their right mind uses a service that shoddy. That so many do just proves how many dumb and/or desperate people there are in Sydney." - MrPC
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8050
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 3:35 pm
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| T251 wrote: | | 8050, what about the magnificent T class steamer? |
Got a picture?
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- it's just that I think the guy who designed the exterior needed to be tarred and feathered... 
