Comments left about this photograph:
From The Chief at 2007-08-24 12:46:36 : Dreadful! Like the depot sticker!
From Philip Wright at 2007-08-24 19:46:02 : Interesting! I wonder what the other end of the 'loco' looks like? Not all that practical with the coupling gear covered is it!
From O.H. at 2007-08-24 20:38:21 : It looks the same as this end. How does it couple? Lift the cover, pull out the Scharfenberg (or whatever it is), bash into the stock. Dead easy.
From Bastiaan at 2007-08-24 21:11:22 : Wonderful! I would suggest turning the pantograph te other way so that the 'thing that touches the overhead wire' (how is it called?) is more above the middle of the bogie. Also I think it would be more usefull and uniform with other coaching stock and locomotives, when it had normal buffers, just like Class 91 with Mk4s. Perhaps this is a nice proposal for the next fictitious livery?
From O.H. at 2007-08-24 22:12:12 : ... Yes, you're right about the pantograph - it should be mounted the other way (pantograph head is the term you're looking for) - I only had access to photos of one that way round, so it's a compromise!
From Callum Swansborough at 2007-08-24 22:55:31 : It reminds me of the Amtrak Accela Trains, as they have multiple units and locomotives, which look quite simlillar to this.
From PrentonPimp at 2007-08-25 09:15:51 : Who cares what the rivet counters think? It's FICTICIOUS!! I like it!!
From Andy at 2007-08-25 22:18:46 : Much better than a Class 390 - but does it tilt???
From Matthew Harbon at 2007-08-26 11:16:56 : I think it looks brilliant! Now one in GNER livery and a diesel version!
From bjmorley at 2007-08-26 11:58:19 : just a bit of shaping for the coaches it would work.
From bjmorley at 2007-08-26 12:02:02 : oh also would the coaches be Mk.5?!
From Tom Walker at 2007-08-28 18:25:48 : This is awesome! It would be like the next evolution of the Class 90 design... and therefore related to the 87s, and then the 86s and so on... Shame the mk 5 windows are still small, but a brilliant image! Maybe try it with a voyager?
From O.H. at 2007-08-28 20:14:26 : Except it's a Co-Co, so it's probably related to the 89 (uh oh, leaking gearboxes here we come) ...
From WCML at 2007-09-01 18:02:11 : That is absolutely amazing!!!!!
From kev o at 2007-10-04 11:20:37 : Co-Co, hmmm... doesn't that make it a vague relation of the class 92?
From Ged Flannery at 2007-10-12 17:07:25 : Haf the A.P.T.Project been given the right ammount of investment and they had ironed out all the gremlins,who knows ??? we might have had a Electric and Diesel versions of a Mark 2 A.P.T. and it could have looked something like this.
From Ben Bull at 2007-10-29 22:04:58 : A Pendolino as a Locomotive, brilliant. Virgin West Coast use to have locomotives. Very useful
From me at 2007-12-04 19:54:02 : O.H. said: pull out the Scharfenberg (or whatever it is) It's a Dellner.
From David Broster at 2008-01-01 15:59:38 : me said: It's a Dellner Scharfenbergs and Dellners are very similar, the only real difference is the position of the electrical connections - above/below on a Dellner, to each side "I-love-you"--style on a Scharfenberg! (Yes, PrestonPimp, feel free to call me one of those rivet counters!)! :-P
From PrentonPimp at 2008-01-11 18:37:59 : Good knowledge, Mr Broster. However, my name is PrentonPimp with an N. This is because I am from Prenton in Merseyside. Confusing Prenton with Preston is rather like confusing a Scharfenburg coupler with a dellner! They look basically the same, but ther is a subtle difference!! 8-}
From David Broster at 2008-01-23 16:23:08 : Thanks, Mr Pimp! :D! :P
From gilbert thrust at 2008-02-02 18:09:45 : god, that looks gorgeous from that angle
From LaSeandre at 2008-03-15 16:23:24 : I lol'ed at the TOPS number.
From j......... at 2008-03-27 21:15:06 : Show us the DVT at the other end and I'll be even happier
From Mark Parker at 2008-03-30 21:26:21 : This looks so much better than the conventional class 390. Visual proof indeed that 'proper' locomotives are so much better looking than these God-awful units we now have to endure. Yes, I like it
From L. E. Greys at 2008-04-01 20:36:30 : 'Does it tilt?' It probably doesn't need to tilt, since tilt is purely to keep passengers comfortable when going round curves quickly. Still, the driver might need a seatbelt to avoid him flying out of his chair at Queensville.