Российские железные дорОги

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I didn't notice this drawing before, but it's really cool.

I understand that this locomotive is not familiar to you, that's why this drawing is so cool. It has the correct shape of the windows, and the front slope of the frontal part of the body is also very correct (first the rising recess and only then the tilted part). It also has large exhaust pipes, three-axle carts and a cooling grid for high-voltage rooms. It's just very cool man <3

Thank you!

It may not be the most confident works I've ever drawn, but I do like drawing the face. I'm mostly familiar with North American diesels (US & Canada) and American railroading with a soft spot for European trains (usually anywhere west of the existing Russian gauge network). I like the TE10 series as much as I like the more popular M62 and the East German BR 132 (or 232) class diesels.

Also, many of these Soviet style locomotives (diesel and electric) some of the hardest trains to operate in some popular train simulators especially in Trainz because they're usually scripted to have the user flip multiple switches and press a few buttons to turn the locomotive on before driving. There is one add-on American diesel made for the Trainz game that is scripted to have the user turn it on, but it's not as hard as the Russian gauge engines because not only the number of buttons and switches, but also I don't understand any Cyrillic languages such as Russian and Ukrainian used to label every control in the cab. When I want to drive for example, an M62 in Trainz, my only choices are anything that's not based on the original Russian gauge versions which are from Eastern Bloc places like former East Germany, Hungary, and Poland (PKP ST44) because they're normally not scripted, but if I want something closer to a Russian gauge M62, luckily I came across only one Belarussian M62 model that is made by someone who made some of those non-Russian gauge M62s (It can have the couplers changed to the Soviet standed SA3 couplings in the game).

I just went into little too much detail here, but I do like looking at Russian gauge locomotives, mainly diesels and electrics.

Oh, that was unexpected!

I can tell you a lot about them, and I also had experience in trainz.
Yes, the M62 is indeed the most common Soviet loc in Europe. Diesel 10D40 is not the most economical, but it is reliable and sounds very tasty, a bit like a tractor. BR132(232) is like one section of 2TE116, the same diesel and generator. 2TE116 is the most technologically advanced freight locomotive of the USSR, it was supposed to be just an intermediate series between TE10 and 2TE121 which were designed for 2 × 4000 hp. but the 80s were not the best, so only ~74 locomotives were built, but they managed to become beloved. They were better than 2te116 and 2te10, but they worked only from 1986 to 1993

Ok thanks for some intel! I didn't expect it, but I can look the rest up on my own even though I'm more into the BR 132/232 more because of my love of the German railways from WWII to present.

Have a good day!

Yes, German railways are interesting, and all their locomotives are cool :3

Yes!

Bye!