The aesthetic thread aka "Fugly"

overmarze · Post by **overmarze** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:53 pm

How did i miss that

Cheers.

craigy · Post by **craigy** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:04 am

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

overmarze · Post by **overmarze** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:11 am

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

Rfairlie · Post by **Rfairlie** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:42 pm

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

Crimpsal · Post by **Crimpsal** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:00 pm

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.

danielw2599 · Post by **danielw2599** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:45 pm

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.

arabiandisco · Post by **arabiandisco** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:44 pm

New Class 70

Old class 70

Which is more aesthetically pleasing?

Crimpsal · Post by **Crimpsal** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:05 pm

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.

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:11 pm

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.

bgstrowger · Post by **bgstrowger** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:41 pm

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.

AlistairW · Post by **AlistairW** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:45 pm

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!

bgstrowger · Post by **bgstrowger** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:27 pm

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...

arabiandisco · Post by **arabiandisco** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:42 pm

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)

Post by **codrivermike** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:42 pm

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.

LeeEAS · Post by **LeeEAS** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:27 am

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.

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