HELP!!! What Vehicle is this?!?

[FATROC]

Appears to be some type of Soviet era land train (Command Vehicle?).     Any info on this vehicle would be great. It would be a GREAT way to ride out the Zombie Apocalypse. 

[Nimrod]

This was a test vehicle for the new tractor chassis.
Only one ever been producted
Top part of this vehicle basiclly a m62 locomotive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M62_locomotive

Lower part being a new chassis for heavy tractor.
More a technical joke then a proper vehicle.
You can see a couple more pictures of this thing here: http://scaletrainsclub.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2605

[FATROC]

Thank you for the information.

[Dr. Zombie]

I love that you can post a picture of some weird russian machine asking what it is and that someone answers with all the info in it in less than an hour!

There is some serious braintrust here.

[Arlequín]

Only one ever been producted

Then why are there two? 

[zizi666]

Then why are there two? 

I'm guessing one IS a train (in the pic with the 2 vehicles)
As for the different colour schemes : probably before and after military paint job.

[Nimrod]

Then why are there two?  

This photo, not a real vehicle, just a fake picture made in photoshop.

[FATROC]

There may actually be 3. I found another that is slighly different in detail. Of course, they could all be the same vehicle with slight modifications, and paint job.     It is still pretty cool.

[Nimrod]

There may actually be 3. I found another that is slighly different in detail. Of course, they could all be the same vehicle with slight modifications, and paint job.   Confused  It is still pretty cool.

I checked online sources on this locomotive again, just to be sure, and all of them says that is the same locomotive, only with different painjob.

This is how he looks now:
http://foto.rambler.ru/users/bors23/albums/13739168/

Other pictures were made when testing was in process.


Even found the place where this locomotive now located on google earth

[Arlequín]

I'm quite impressed with it overall. If they had gotten the transmission to work effectively, they essentially have a highly mobile, if a bit slow, massive electric generator, providing they kept the locomotive engines that is.

 

[FATROC]

Thanks everyone! You've all been helpful. This beast has gotten the wheels turning in my mind to create a "Post-Apoc" Land Cruiser for my 28mm Neo-Sovs.

[YPU]

I got to agree, my first instinctive reaction to this topic was to look for model kits of that train or similar and ramshackle games wheels that would fit it to create a vehicle like that. For some reason the look really works for me.

EDIT: Anybody else notice that in the second and third picture the third wheel from the front is crooked and flat/misshapen in a very similar manner?

[FATROC]

I LUV Ramshackle! They have the best mix and match parts. I was also thinking that 1/35 scale tires for some of the larger vehicles (LAV, modern U.S. 5 ton, etc...) might work. I've already started searching ebay for O scale train engines. 

[zizi666]

EDIT: Anybody else notice that in the second and third picture the third wheel from the front is crooked and flat/misshapen in a very similar manner?

Yup. You'd expect the first wheel to take damage on difficult terrain, not that one.

[Arlequín]

Anybody else notice that in the second and third picture the third wheel from the front is crooked and flat/misshapen in a very similar manner?

It's because it's the same vehicle.. different paint jobs. Apparently they married up the loco with the chassis of one of the Soviet multi-wheel/steer missile carriers. When they tried it out, something broke and they left it as it was.