Phwoar!

[Nawdic]

This is space age:

[JamieLei]

I'll take your Tube and raise it to a Rapi:t!

[Badger]

Christ, who sat down and said "Yeah, that's the look we want"?

[JamieLei]

It's an airport express that's competing against a different airport express. Evidently they need something to make it stand out from the competition!

It was also the last train I rode in Japan (for obvious reasons).

[Ameecher]

It was also the last train I rode in Japan (for obvious reasons).

Because it was so damn ugly that you couldn't go near another train?

[JamieLei]

I still think the ones on my local subway line were uglier.

[SwissFan91]

I swear we had a thread for posting good/bad looking vehicles?

God what do you see in planes? They're all the same, etc etc.

Could easily change "planes" to "trains" and the same thing would apply...

YES THANK YOU EXTSPOTTER FOR POINTING OUT THE JOKE I HAD ALREADY HAD THE MENTAL ABILITY TO CREATE!

[EXTspotter]

God what do you see in planes? They're all the same, etc etc.

Could easily change "planes" to "trains" and the same thing would apply...

YES THANK YOU EXTSPOTTER FOR POINTING OUT THE JOKE I HAD ALREADY HAD THE MENTAL ABILITY TO CREATE!

Sorry, I missed that one completely, my heads somewhere else today.... :S

[supermop]

I'll raise you a PEP...



That looks pretty terrible by today's standards but in 1973 it would have looked space-age!

What is this thing? Never seen or heard of it before. I like it.

[oberhümer]

This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_R ... 45_and_446

[Railwaymodeler]

I'll take your Tube and raise it to a Rapi:t!

Reminds me of the New York Central Railroad's "gladiator" style streamline 4-6-3 Hudson steamers. I think the gladiator style was a prewar design, so nothing new conceptually.

[Emperor Jake]

American double-deck commuter EMU from the 2000s.


Australian double-deck commuter EMU from the 2000s. Also compare the 1980s Tangara on the previous page.


Americans, Y U NO can build good-looking trains?!

[buckethead]

[oberhümer]

Ph, not those crazy flying machines again.

Well, another prime example of great American design:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 003-01.jpg
'70s German freight electric.
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/gm1976a.jpg
'70s American freight electric (only a prototype, thank goodness). Though with a proper livery, perhaps...

[Hitperson]

It looks like the front was chopped off, but not too bad besides.

I'll go in a different direction yet again (well, it does have "train" in its name):

looks like something that should have appeared in an episode of thunderbirds...

[doktorhonig]

MOAR PHWOAR !!!!

[Pilot]

Indeed

[61653]

Just for completeness...

[Nawdic]

PHWOOAARR!!

[supermop]