I made quite an unusual oberservation while playing TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. There is a certain level in the game where you are on a speeding train, and you have to hunt down a specific person on the train. Now, I know I'm not supposed to over analyze something like a video game, but I happened to notice a historical inaccuracy (at least, it seemed inaccurate to me...). The level is supposed to be set in Russia in 1969. The locomotive on the train, however, is an ALCO RS3. Were any of these ever in Russia to begin with?
fafnir242 wrote: I made quite an unusual oberservation while playing TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. There is a certain level in the game where you are on a speeding train, and you have to hunt down a specific person on the train. Now, I know I'm not supposed to over analyze something like a video game, but I happened to notice a historical inaccuracy (at least, it seemed inaccurate to me...). The level is supposed to be set in Russia in 1969. The locomotive on the train, however, is an ALCO RS3. Were any of these ever in Russia to begin with?
As far as I know no post war Alco diesels were ever operated in Russia.
Russia did get seventy RSD-1 locomotives (these had conventional RS-1 cabs, not the angled cab side of the later military locomotives) and built a number of copies class TE-1 and thousands of modified locomotives of class TEM-2. These were all six axle locomotives, but all looked generally like the Alco RS-3. These were all painted dark green as the standard colour. If the loco was dark green and looked like an RS-3, the game might be very accurate! The TEM-2s were still being built new in 1969.
M636C
M636C wrote: fafnir242 wrote: I made quite an unusual oberservation while playing TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. There is a certain level in the game where you are on a speeding train, and you have to hunt down a specific person on the train. Now, I know I'm not supposed to over analyze something like a video game, but I happened to notice a historical inaccuracy (at least, it seemed inaccurate to me...). The level is supposed to be set in Russia in 1969. The locomotive on the train, however, is an ALCO RS3. Were any of these ever in Russia to begin with? As far as I know no post war Alco diesels were ever operated in Russia.Russia did get seventy RSD-1 locomotives (these had conventional RS-1 cabs, not the angled cab side of the later military locomotives) and built a number of copies class TE-1 and thousands of modified locomotives of class TEM-2. These were all six axle locomotives, but all looked generally like the Alco RS-3. These were all painted dark green as the standard colour. If the loco was dark green and looked like an RS-3, the game might be very accurate! The TEM-2s were still being built new in 1969.M636C
Well, it wasn't a dark green, but it was green, had the same striping, and looked pretty simliar structuraly to the TEMs (I just did a Google Image search on them). I think you may have hit the jackpot. Thank you for clearing up this confusion I had.
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