Talk:Soviet locomotive class IS

2-8-4?
From the drawing, the wheel arrangement appears to be 2-8-4. Can anyone confirm this? Wikipedia seems to have almost nothing about Russian locomotives and I think this is a gap that needs to be filled. Biscuittin (talk) 22:07, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect link?
The "Voroshilovgrad" link takes one to "Kolomna", which is wrong - "Voroshilovgrad" was - and is - a town in the eastern Ukraine, the name of which has now reverted (correct use of the word "reverted", for a change!) to "Lugansk". Klement (later "Marshal Klement") Voroshilov was born in or near the town (see Wiki entry for details), which is also the home of the locomotive works which built the large series of diesels used in in the GDR and Bulgaria, and now known in Germany as Class 130 or "Ludmillas" (thanks to their Russian origin).Maelli (talk) 12:23, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Requested move 1 July 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Moved because consensus exists that these locomotives should not be associated with Russia but with Soviet Union. (non-admin closure) >>> Extorc . talk  12:37, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

– These locomotives were all introduced during the period that Russia was part of the Soviet Union, and the term "Soviet locomotive" appears in the lede and infobox for those articles which include a nationality. See WT:WikiProject Trains/Archive: 2015, which suggests that such articles should be at "Soviet" rather than "Russian". Tevildo (talk) 23:38, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Russian locomotive class IS → Soviet locomotive class IS
 * Russian locomotive class FD → Soviet locomotive class FD
 * Russian locomotive class TE3 → Soviet locomotive class TE3
 * Russian locomotive class TE2 → Soviet locomotive class TE2
 * Russian locomotive class L → Soviet locomotive class L
 * Russian locomotive class VM → Soviet locomotive class VM
 * Russian locomotive class E el → Soviet locomotive class E el
 * Russian locomotive class shch-el-1 → Soviet locomotive class shch-el-1
 * Russian locomotive class E el-8 → Soviet locomotive class E el-8
 * Russian locomotive class VL19 → Soviet locomotive class VL19
 * Russian locomotive class E el-2 → Soviet locomotive class E el-2
 * Russian locomotive class LV → Soviet locomotive class LV
 * Russian locomotive class P36 → Soviet locomotive class P36


 * Support A number of these aren’t even from the Russian republic. The current names are unacceptable because they reflect an offensive colonial WP:POV (see WP:BIAS. —Michael Z. 15:04, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support all none of these are russian made—blindlynx 19:56, 4 July 2022 (UTC)