TGVs should be orange. Blah blah blah different liveries blah blah variety blah blah I don't care. TGVs should be orange.
And Moscow Metro's trains should be blue. But aren't.
>>2057678God, that first series TGV was so sexy. To me this will always be the only one.
>>2057678Corail coaches should be orange too
>>2057678>>2057688And while we're at it, Turbotrains should be, and they should be orange
>>2057678>>2057688>>2057689And while we're on that topic, what better color for your mainline universal locomotives than ORANGE?
>>2057678>>2057688>>2057689>>2057690Yard engines? You guessed it, best when O R A N G E
>>2057678>>2057688>>2057689>>2057690>>2057691Didi you know that Jacques Cooper, father of the iconic original pointy and ORANGE TGV had sketches for a twindeck TGV back in 1976 long before TGV Duplex was a thing?Did you know it was pointy and >ORANGE>R>A>N>G>EWhat could have been.
Shinkansen should be white with a blue stripe and only the 0 series counts
>>2057689Best we can do in the States is bright yellow, sorry
>>2057701best we can do in *North America*, I mean
>>2057701>the lightning cameltoe
>>2057701For me its the Black-white-red CN livery
>>2057745Fuck forgot the pic
S-Bahn trains should be orange as well
>>2057690That's where you lose me because the green SNCF freight livery is kino
>>2057821>Paint the locomotive green, Jacques?>No, Remy, just the ends. Paint the rest gray
>>2057822>putain Jean-Pierre>you forgot the other paint bucket and now only the ends are green>just like before when only the top and front were orange>this is all your fault Jean-Pierre>merde>that's it we're going on strike until management sends us another paint bucket
>>2057824I chuckled
>>2057692The commercial orange ones are iconic but i really like the smoothness of the TGV 001 which was the proto for the original project powered by an helo turboshaft.
>>2057821I'd argue that's the least bad paintjob the Sybic ever got, still looks like shit but nothing looks good on a Sybic.I like Fret on Nez-cassés, works well with their shape, but find it meh on most other locomotives.Best SNCF paintjob is anything (but béton) Arzens designed anyway.>>2057822>>2057824wdym paint the train?
>>2057701what am I looking at? Dutch railways running their koploopers in Canada?
>>2057853I love how much of a big dumb brick it is and the fact that its liveries are mostly just grey is perfect. It really IS just a big slab on wheel. It's so dumb, I love it.Helps that I used to ride it a ton on the TER network ten or so years back. When one of these showed up pulling a wagon with closed compartments in the evening, you knew you were about to have a cozy ride.
>>2057854The UAC (Pratt & Whitney jet engines) Turbotrain, used by CN, VIA rail, and Amtrak in the 1960s and 1970s. The original design was by Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. Loud, inefficient, and broke down a lot, but it was faster than normal trains. It could tilt around corners.
>>2057853Nez Cassé is so classy, it really lends itself to many good paint schemes
>>2057940That it does
>>2057678Why are electric locomotives so big, just put all that shit underneath the cars.
>>2058055That shit takes space and SNCF don't believe in distributed power as far as high speed trains are concerned.
>>2058055EMUs have a bunch of drawbacks. For a start, you have to make parts small enough to fit under over over passengers. This can be tricky with really powerful transformers as you'd want them here. Packaging all the other stuff also isn't trivial. It's not just space but also weight, noise, vibration and heat that you need to mange. All this costs extra, causes complications with the coach systems (eg. tanks for the toilet, AC gotta be somewhere too, you'd want huge bogies for high speed comfort...) and makes maintenance a nightmare.Concerning maintenance, it's also possible to just uncouple a locomotive from the TGV and replace it with a reserve unit if something major breaks. No need to put aside the whole train for days or even weeks. Long term you can also reconfigure trainsets more freely, as it's been happening to the ICE1 fleet lately, simply because most cars in the consist don't have any task besides holding passengers. As for the TGV, having separate locomotives made it easier to derive single and double deck versions as well as multiple generations of locomotives, simply because no complete redesign was needed. Hell, they ran TGV coaches with ICE2 locomotives once.Coaches that just don't have anything else going tend to be much nicer for customers because it's quite and there's less vibration. Nowadays they might go EMU for better acceleration but with the technology of its time, an EMU with similar power would've been pretty aweful in every metric.
>>2057692Absolute Kino delivery.Orange is also FASTA
>>2057678Best looking high speed train color scheme of all time and it's not even close. No idea why their current trains look so bad. The earlier Thalys livery (the red one) on those trains looked really good too.But SNCF's current logo really show you what little thought they put into their image anymore.>>2058061I would opt for conventional locomotives over EMUs for these reasons if the decision was mine. I can see why the Japanese went with EMUs though, they're experts at miniaturization and making things fit in tight spaces.
All locomotives should be orange
>>2057842TGV 001 is peak "what if train, but racecar?".I love it for what it is, the last iteration of a concept that only worked as long as oil costed nothing, but am still kinda glad it died when it did, allowing the program to transition to electric power before sunk cost kicked in.Had it gone through, we'd also never have had the opportunity for the absurdity of the direct Paris - Les Sables d'Olonnes service that used to imply towing a TGV with a diesel over the last leg as that line was only fully electrified in 2008.
Well in India some trains are red and other train are blue.
>>2058234They are all blue, if some turn red is just because of the blood of victims.
>>2057678I agree. Normally you might think this looks really retro, but there's a timeless cyberpunk aesthetic in these that looks fresh no matter what. I never even thought these seemed outdated. These were the TGV, every newer model was some random high speed train that I had to find out more about to make sure it's actually a TGV. Speaking as someone who doesn't live in France and just casually likes trains.
>>2057678very fair assessment. blaze orange is a sexy color>>2057680montreal wins again
