Nostalgia & History > Saluting roster shots (#61): What a mug!!

If you were to merely call this locomotive ugly it would no doubt be considered a compliment. Yikes, this thang gives the term “hideous” a whole new meaning! Golly Wally, somebody actually designed this contraption on purpose. And it has a bloody nose, to boot...

1. SP 8799 mugs for the camera in Roseville, CA on October 10, 1971.
C G Parsons commercial copy slide from the late James W. Watson collection.
Photographer is unknown (maybe embarrassed... ;^).

Thanks for looking!
Lance Garrels
santafe199

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Back in her days as a camera car of sorts. Glad she was saved, and is now operational once again.

Ah yes, one of the German Krauss-Maffei loco's the SP experimented with.  This unit later became their Camera Car seen here for filming for later training of headend trainmen.

Horrific! Its hard to believe that the ugly snout was cut off and a new nose fabricated and not only cosmetically restored, this unit recently ran under under its own power albeit with only one truck powered!
Thank you Lance for reminding us how SP uglified an already ungainly beast!
Gonut

Looks a little better now having been restored by Howard Wise at PLA.
Regards, Jim Evans
 

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A dog's hind end looks better...

JG

FiveChime Wrote:
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> Looks a little better now having been restored by
> Howard Wise at PLA.
> Regards, Jim Evans
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yes, beautiful restoration work by all involved!

Wow, that's right up there with the Crandall E unit. 

A face only a mother could love. 

When I was a young kid, it seemed like every time my dad had to run errands on a Saturday we would inevitably end up driving around the perimeter of the Roseville yard to check things out. I remember seeing this locomotive (camera car) along with SP's Alco Century hydraulics sitting dead outside the shops on so many occasions that I assumed that they would be there forever.  Times have definitely changed...