Soviet Era Diesel

[Just Crazy Jim]

I was panning through my old laptop's hard drive looking for 3D models of locomotives and ran across JPGs of these gems.

A diesel express on the Leningrad-Moscow route, 1952.

A diesel express on the Leningrad-Moscow route, 1957.

Both have a decidedly Soviet retro look and represent oddities in a system that was strongly biased toward electric.

[Gumboots]

The blue one is a nice-looking unit. Pity I don't do diesel. They'd be much easier to model and skin than the average steamer.

[Just Crazy Jim]

Agreed, the blue livery set is my sweetheart of the pair.

For the longest time, I thought they were both electrics because of the wires. Then I found a site with more information and was surprised to find out they were indeed diesels. I felt a sort of sagging feeling when I found out. I'd modeled them both, but at the time had no idea how to get them into RT3. Now, seven years later, I am on a bug hunt trying to find my model files >_<

[RulerofRails]

Hope you find them. A taste of what might have been without so much bureaucracy.