Щ-ЭЛ-1, one of first diesel-electric locomotives in the world. It was designed and built in new Soviet Russia. Now it is exposed in the Russian railways museum in St Petersburg between Еа and ФД steam locomotives developed in USA and USSR consequently.
First diesel electric locomotive of the 1Co+Do+Co1 (1-3-0 + 0-4-0 + 0-3-1) class named firstly JuE002 (Юэ002) and later Shch-el-1 (Щ-ЭЛ-1) and Ge1 (Гэ1 - after name of designer, Y. M. Gakkel) was designed by Yakov Modestovich Gakkel and Alexander Sergeevich Raevsky and built in Soviet Russia by the Putilov Plant and the Baltic Shipyard in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). As the prime mover has been used the 1000 hp 4 stroke 10 cylinder Vickers diesel presumably salvaged from a British submarine lost in the Baltic in 1919 during The Intervention. The electric generator was also of submarine type but made in Italy. Traction motors were PT-100 (ПТ-100), 100 kW each. Curiously, the locomotive was seriously damaged during the Great flood of Petrograd in 1924. It career was very short it worked on a railway during 1925-27 yy and from 1934 has been used as mobile power plant. In contrast to the JuE002, the competitive project JuE001 (Юэ001) built in Germany under Lenin's decision designed by another famous Russian railway engineer, Yury Lomonosov had more prolonged usage up to 1954 y. JuE001 Diesel-electric locomotive class E el-2 (Ээл2) had 1′Eo1′ configuration, 1200 hp MAN diesel and 800 kW electric motors.
The JuE002 (Щ-ЭЛ-1) now is exposed in the Russian Railways Museum in St. Petersburg.
Еа 534 was built by ALCO for the Russian Empire during WW1
The locomotives designated in Russia "E" were built for Tsarist Russia during WW1 on three American locomotive plants, ALCO, Baldwin and Canadian Locomotive Company under common terms of reference to have 2-10-0 class locomotive. The class gave semi-formal naming of the E type in Russia: "The Russian decapode". A lot of work were needed to unify their final design between so proud producers. There were few generations and orders during active phase of the World War. After the war ending the new order for production of 500 locomotives (with option of 1000 in future) was canceled due to the inability of new Russia to pay the rest of the war credit. From this order 100 already built locomotives have been transported in Russia, but another 200 left in US where were rebuilt to European gauge and worked on Erie, Seabord Air Line railroad and others. Totally 881 locomotives built by ALCO, Baldwin and CLC were sell to Imperial and Soviet Russia. They worked mostly in Siberian region and on the Far East of Russia.
the FD (ФД20) class of freight locomotives of 2-10-2 (1-4-1 in Russia) class 3100 hp with the axle load 20 t (it is emphasized in the name FD-20) were developed at V.V. Kuybyshev Locomotive Factory in Kolomna, Russian SFSR using experience in the operation of 2-10-4 class steam locomotives of the Ta (Та) and Tb (Тб) types (Texas type) built for the USSR in small series by ALCO and Baldwin, respectively, to 1931 y. Firstly their high 23 t axle load must be decreased to comply to weaker Russian rail tracks. It was achieved by general optimization of design including more fine-grade casts. The FD class was named after Felix Dzerzhinsky, who led the first two Soviet state-security organizations. They were constructively highly unified to the IS class of passenger steam locomotives of Soviet railways (ИС20, named after Joseph Stalin) that preserved original design 2-8-4 class. Locomotives of the IS and FD series were manufactured between 1931 and 1942 by the October Revolution Locomotive Factory at Voroshilovgrad (Luhansk) in Soviet Ukraine with 649 IS and 3213 FD produced totally. After voluntarist decision of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to cease the steam locomotives production to change them entirely on the diesel locomotives (1956) circa one thousand of the FD were generously given to Communist China were they worked until 1970th.
Щ-ЭЛ-1, one of first diesel-electric locomotives in the world. It was designed and built in new Soviet Russia. Now it is exposed in the Russian railways museum in St Petersburg between Еа and ФД steam locomotives developed in USA and USSR consequently.
First diesel electric locomotive of the 1Co+Do+Co1 (1-3-0 + 0-4-0 + 0-3-1) class named firstly JuE002 (Юэ002) and later Shch-el-1 (Щ-ЭЛ-1) and Ge1 (Гэ1 - after name of designer, Y. M. Gakkel) was designed by Yakov Modestovich Gakkel and Alexander Sergeevich Raevsky and built in Soviet Russia by the Putilov Plant and the Baltic Shipyard in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). As the prime mover has been used the 1000 hp 4 stroke 10 cylinder Vickers diesel presumably salvaged from a British submarine lost in the Baltic in 1919 during The Intervention. The electric generator was also of submarine type but made in Italy. Traction motors were PT-100 (ПТ-100), 100 kW each. Curiously, the locomotive was seriously damaged during the Great flood of Petrograd in 1924. It career was very short it worked on a railway during 1925-27 yy and from 1934 has been used as mobile power plant. In contrast to the JuE002, the competitive project JuE001 (Юэ001) built in Germany under Lenin's decision designed by another famous Russian railway engineer, Yury Lomonosov had more prolonged usage up to 1954 y. JuE001 Diesel-electric locomotive class E el-2 (Ээл2) had 1′Eo1′ configuration, 1200 hp MAN diesel and 800 kW electric motors.
The JuE002 (Щ-ЭЛ-1) now is exposed in the Russian Railways Museum in St. Petersburg.
Еа 534 was built by ALCO for the Russian Empire during WW1
The locomotives designated in Russia "E" were built for Tsarist Russia during WW1 on three American locomotive plants, ALCO, Baldwin and Canadian Locomotive Company under common terms of reference to have 2-10-0 class locomotive. The class gave semi-formal naming of the E type in Russia: "The Russian decapode". A lot of work were needed to unify their final design between so proud producers. There were few generations and orders during active phase of the World War. After the war ending the new order for production of 500 locomotives (with option of 1000 in future) was canceled due to the inability of new Russia to pay the rest of the war credit. From this order 100 already built locomotives have been transported in Russia, but another 200 left in US where were rebuilt to European gauge and worked on Erie, Seabord Air Line railroad and others. Totally 881 locomotives built by ALCO, Baldwin and CLC were sell to Imperial and Soviet Russia. They worked mostly in Siberian region and on the Far East of Russia.
the FD (ФД20) class of freight locomotives of 2-10-2 (1-4-1 in Russia) class 3100 hp with the axle load 20 t (it is emphasized in the name FD-20) were developed at V.V. Kuybyshev Locomotive Factory in Kolomna, Russian SFSR using experience in the operation of 2-10-4 class steam locomotives of the Ta (Та) and Tb (Тб) types (Texas type) built for the USSR in small series by ALCO and Baldwin, respectively, to 1931 y. Firstly their high 23 t axle load must be decreased to comply to weaker Russian rail tracks. It was achieved by general optimization of design including more fine-grade casts. The FD class was named after Felix Dzerzhinsky, who led the first two Soviet state-security organizations. They were constructively highly unified to the IS class of passenger steam locomotives of Soviet railways (ИС20, named after Joseph Stalin) that preserved original design 2-8-4 class. Locomotives of the IS and FD series were manufactured between 1931 and 1942 by the October Revolution Locomotive Factory at Voroshilovgrad (Luhansk) in Soviet Ukraine with 649 IS and 3213 FD produced totally. After voluntarist decision of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to cease the steam locomotives production to change them entirely on the diesel locomotives (1956) circa one thousand of the FD were generously given to Communist China were they worked until 1970th.