http://galleryandrew.mediaobjects.co.uk/p64296452.html
Is this the first online photo of a 70 working a passenger train?
Comments welcome.
70003 passes Coppenhall, 17/04/10
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Re: 70003 passes Coppenhall, 17/04/10
Excellent Picture but I still think it's a 'orrible looking mess of a loco. I know we tried that layout with the 58's but if they were a good idea how come the layout wasn't specified in all loco's built since? The "hood" diesel found favour in the US but they use single cabs. Norfolk and Western (and a few others) even specified "long hood forward" running giving as restricted a forward vision as a steam loco, apparently for added crew safety in a collision, but with a cab on each end as favoured in Europe what's the point? Any rearward vision is further impaired by the projecting cab door?! Why do the cab doors stick out like that? Did they just pull some spare doors of a pallet and bodge them in? A truly awful looking loco IMO but then the latest domestic output in the States are ugly too. hard to believe now that they produced some of the most graceful streamliners ever whilst we were still puffing around in turn of the century steam. We need to send "The Style Police" round to freightliners offices. This is an offence to UK designerschester025 wrote:http://galleryandrew.mediaobjects.co.uk/p64296452.html
Is this the first online photo of a 70 working a passenger train?
Comments welcome.
Geoff