Something I realized while coming up with fictional countries... We're familiar with US export models. That is, even if you don't know the model designations and specifications, you must've seen what they look like. I know of (much less numerous) British, French and German exports. I don't know the product lines, but I've seen enough to know there were some semi-standardized locomotives. As you can see, I'm not talking about exports of the same designs used in the home country (SD70Ms to Venezuela; M62s to Cuba). I'm talking about locomotives designed for metre/Cape gauge (though possibly used on standard/broad gauge), reduced clearance and low axle load (though maybe not much less than European). Vietnam seems an obvious place to look. http://railvn.byethost3.com/locomotives.html Many are either post-1990 or not from Communist sources. They had Romanian hydraulics, Czech hood units, but their commonest diesel used to be Soviet 400hp endcab B-B hydraulics, the same design used on 75cm gauge in the USSR. That is, a much smaller locomotive than I was thinking of. Where's the Russian, Romanian, Czech or East German equivalent to the U20/26C or G22 series? The sort of engine that I'd expect Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Benin or Congo-Brazzaville to have bought. But in those countries, any locomotives I can recall are Western. http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/benin01.htm looks like an entirely French roster, none post-1980. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Burma#1988 Alsthom, Krupp, Hitachi, Kawasaki, no Communist countries. The only Communist country exports I can think of in the size range I'm talking about are Chinese, and mostly post-1990.
Thailand has purchased locomotives from Henschel (Germany) Krupp(Germany) Daewoo(Korea) Hunslet(U.K) BREL(U.K) Hitachi(Japan) Davenport(USA) Plymouth(USA) G.E(USA) FRICHS(Denmark I think) KEV
