
Deutsche Bahn photo courtesy Destination: Freedom.
The diesel is still painted in Wisconsin Central colors. Look at all that wasted space above those containers.
Electro-Motive, with a little help from General Motors's Styling Section, produced the world's most beautiful diesel locomotives. (Look carefully the next time you see a highway sign giving the location of a train station. There's nothing like a bulldog nose to announce a train.)

Image courtesy Destination: Freedom.
It's probably too much to ask that Metra's dual-genset locomotives, should they ever be built, be contained in that shell.


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