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I agree that they look bland and shedlike, but you can't knock their engineering. They p*** on the reliability of home built locos.
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Agreed, but if you ask me, you can have the most technically sound machine ever conceved, but if you've not put any passion and soul and character into that machine then there's no magic to me, it's just a machine.
I can't explain this, it's something that isn't tangible but it's there with some locos and it's not with others. I can't say it any more than that. I reckon the steam guys will sort of understand where I am coming from, and how the classic deisel generation is now ironically sharing some of those feelings?
I reckon every generation has difficulty letting their generation of loco go though, no doubt people growing up seeing the 66 around will no doubt find them to the best thing ever and whatever is coming next as you say to be the bland and boring thing.