First diesel electric locomotive of the 1Co+Do+Co1 (1-3-0 + 0-4-0 + 0-3-1) class named firstly JuE002 (Юэ002) and later Shch-el-1 (Щ-ЭЛ-1) and Ge1 (Гэ1 - after name of designer, Y. M. Gakkel) was designed by Yakov Modestovich Gakkel and Alexander Sergeevich Raevsky and built in Soviet Russia by the Putilov Plant and the Baltic Shipyard in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). As the prime mover has been used the 1000 hp 4 stroke 10 cylinder Vickers diesel presumably salvaged from a British submarine lost in the Baltic in 1919 during The Intervention. The electric generator was also of submarine type but made in Italy. Traction motors were PT-100 (ПТ-100), 100 kW each. Curiously, the locomotive was seriously damaged during the Great flood of Petrograd in 1924. It career was very short it worked on a railway during 1925-27 yy and from 1934 has been used as mobile power plant. In contrast to the JuE002, the competitive project JuE001 (Юэ001) built in Germany under Lenin's decision designed by another famous Russian railway engineer, Yury Lomonosov had more prolonged usage up to 1954 y. JuE001 Diesel-electric locomotive class E el-2 (Ээл2) had 1′Eo1′ configuration, 1200 hp MAN diesel and 800 kW electric motors.
The JuE002 (Щ-ЭЛ-1) now is exposed in the Russian Railways Museum in St. Petersburg.
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