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Re: Does Siemens Make the Most God Awful Locomotives on Purpose!
Author: BOB2
Date: 11-15-2017 - 11:56
Form follows function..........
This is a piece of industrial equipment designed to optimize within certain safety and efficiency parameters, not a frigging art contest.
I could just imagine, that if we had streamliners first instead, and then had replaced them with ugly filthy steamies, that I'd be hearing the same whiny crap..... Steam locomotives sometimes weren't all that pretty, either. With enough time, it seems that nostalgia will make even our less glamourous girlfriends, seem so much more beautiful.......
Do these engines operate efficiently, are they easy to access for maintenance, do they ride well, do they have good adhesion, and good acceleration, are they safer in a crash.......?
I've seen some great looking British classic cars that were pieces of crap mechanically. I know that these engines aren't as "sexy" looking as a lash up of F-7's on the Super Chief, but I'm more interested in how they perform.
I too, do confess that I miss the streamlined lines of the F units and the PA's..... Who doesn't, who was lucky enough to have seen those times? But, in the here and now, I'm more interested in seeing one of these new Siemens engines flying through Camp Pendleton, when the DT is fully finished, with a 7 car Surfliner, at 110 mph., while the I-5 traffic next to it will be doing about 20 mph. both ways.
As to all of this whining about the Siemens look?
As Rosanna Rosannadanna used to say: "It's always something......"
This is a piece of industrial equipment designed to optimize within certain safety and efficiency parameters, not a frigging art contest.
I could just imagine, that if we had streamliners first instead, and then had replaced them with ugly filthy steamies, that I'd be hearing the same whiny crap..... Steam locomotives sometimes weren't all that pretty, either. With enough time, it seems that nostalgia will make even our less glamourous girlfriends, seem so much more beautiful.......
Do these engines operate efficiently, are they easy to access for maintenance, do they ride well, do they have good adhesion, and good acceleration, are they safer in a crash.......?
I've seen some great looking British classic cars that were pieces of crap mechanically. I know that these engines aren't as "sexy" looking as a lash up of F-7's on the Super Chief, but I'm more interested in how they perform.
I too, do confess that I miss the streamlined lines of the F units and the PA's..... Who doesn't, who was lucky enough to have seen those times? But, in the here and now, I'm more interested in seeing one of these new Siemens engines flying through Camp Pendleton, when the DT is fully finished, with a 7 car Surfliner, at 110 mph., while the I-5 traffic next to it will be doing about 20 mph. both ways.
As to all of this whining about the Siemens look?
As Rosanna Rosannadanna used to say: "It's always something......"
