Gustavo is based on the Little Joe, a class of 4-8-8-4 electric locomotives. The Little Joes is a type of railroad electric locomotive built by General Electric for export to the Soviet Union (USSR) in the 1950s. The locomotives had twelve axles, eight of them powered, in a 2-D+D-2 arrangement. They were originally designed to operate on Soviet Railways (SZhD) 3,300-volt DC overhead line system. After the Second World War, the Soviet Railways continued their electrification programme, this time targeting the Kropachyovo-Zlatoust-Chelyabinsk line of the South Ural Railroad. As local factories were recovering from the war efforts, the Soviet government (then led by Joseph Stalin), ordered 20 of these locomotives. Known by their factory classification of GE 2-D+D-2 406/546 8-GE 750-3300V, in the Soviet Union, they would have received the classification of the A-series locomotive (from American locomotive, in Russian Американский электровоз). At the time, this was the strongest electric locomotive, producing a power of 4320 kW, being comparable to the UP Big Boy. The Companhia Paulista de Estradas de Ferro converted its locomotives to its 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) gauge. They became known as Russas, and stayed active through each re-organization of the Brazilian railways, finally ending up with FEPASA in 1971.
These was the most powerful electric locomotives rolling on of the country. On this railway, the locomotive of number #6454 gain the title "Engenheiro Jayme Cintra" - a tribute for a important person of the Paulista Railway history: he was the responsible for eletrification of the main Brazilian railway of that season.
They continued to operate until 1999, becoming the last representatives of their class in revenue service. It was at this point that FEPASA was privatized, and electric operation was immediately ended.
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