Ye lads they are beasts alright, great sounds - wonder if they are reliable? - they look a bit dated but there is one clip on the tube of a single loco, guess its a D.E. and its pulling a very long heavy train. Some of the classes were huge with over 1,000 locos built. I think the Russian's built for the whole of the Eastern Bloc but the Czech's also built fleets for the former USSR and Eastern Europe. Think the Russians have begun to build some HS lines and using German ICE technology for that.