Atomic Systems

How did i miss that

Cheers.

Whoever designed that need there eyes and sanity testing, its awful, are we beginning to switch to ugly looking american loco's now?

Im willing to bet its a fake lol some german loco or something. Why would it have blue windows?

This proberly hasnt evan been a official picture from the makers either

Obviously GE struggle to design the front of engines without a nose, something has gone seriously wrong below windscreen level. Apart from that it looks like a cross between a typical modern American diesel and a class 58. It's worth noting that both the bogies and the hand rails are temporary though.

Tim

Rfairlie wrote:It's worth noting that both the bogies and the hand rails are temporary though.

It may well be able to change it's shoes & ditch the epaulettes ........................
But there ain't a plastic surgeon on this planet, that could make that mother's son
look pretty.

overmarze wrote:Im willing to bet its a fake lol some german loco or something. Why would it have blue windows?

This proberly hasnt evan been a official picture from the makers either

The blue windscreen you talk of is just the glare and angle the picture is taken from.

New Class 70


Old class 70

Which is more aesthetically pleasing?

arabiandisco wrote:Which is more aesthetically pleasing?

The old class 70, it's a loco pure & simple, built to do a job of work without any
fancy twiddly bits stuck on, just because the designer had 5 minutes to kill.

The 3 class SR 70s weren't pretty, especially the last one which really was a box on wheels, but compared to the FLHH one they're beautiful.

We definitely haven't gone back in time have we and it's definitely not April the 1st?

Damn.

I was hoping GE would unveil what the new Class 70 really looks like.

A question though, the serrated light clusters, what's that about? Surely not override protection.

I had the ridges down as override protection. How important this is so high above the buffer beam and on a freight loco I don't know! If that’s what why they look like that!

AlistairW wrote:I had the ridges down as override protection. How important this is so high above the buffer beam and on a freight loco I don't know! If that’s what why they look like that!

Indeed. There's already override protection on there: they're called "buffers".

Maybe the paper got scrunched up when they were drawing the plans...

I'm thinking the serrated lights are purely styling.

It's clearly function over form design, but I think it does have some kind of presence. Be interesting to see how it looks with paint on it...

(As it happens, I think the GE 70 has a bit more style than the SR 70)

arabiandisco wrote:
As a means of getting freight around, they look a damn site better than this:

In a world of 'just in time' deliveries that truck can deliver your stuff straight to your door.

craigy wrote:Whoever designed that need there eyes and sanity testing, its awful, are we beginning to switch to ugly looking american loco's now?

I think they were on crack.