Beauty in the eye of the beholder?

It has been said that all I do is look at pictures of trains.  Which is not entirely true, but it does sometimes happen.  Normally I wouldn’t shout about this too much, for fear of damaging my reputation, but I found myself browsing the Bombardier website earlier.  If you didn’t think that trains could be beaten with the ugly stick, think again…

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