(MOC) Metro Exodus – Aurora Steam Locomotive
The Aurora (Russian: Аврора) is a heavily modified steam locomotive, boarded by Artyom and Anna to find a new home far to the East in Metro Exodus. It serves as a mobile base for the player. Yermak is the Aurora’s helmsman, while Miller serves as its crew’s leader.
The Aurora is a “duplex” locomotive, with two sets of driving wheels in what appears to be a 2-8-8-4 configuration, which means a forward pilot truck with two wheels, two sets of driving wheels with eight wheels each, and a rear trailing truck with four wheels. In Russian configuration, this would be a 1-4-4-2.
The locomotive may be a heavily modified Russian P38 articulated locomotive which were the biggest and heaviest Soviet steam locomotives in existence.
It might also be based on two Soviet IS20 locomotives (like IS20-317) combined into a single engine. Those were made from 1932 to 1942, and were used even all the way up until 1972. Most were scraped in the 1980’s due to larger locomotives had taken there place on Soviet railroads. This is the first steam locomotive in the Metro series of games.
The locomotive that was converted into the Aurora could have been taken from one of several Moscow’s railway museums, where some steam locomotives are preserved in a fairly good shape, despite their age.
specification:
6600 Parts
2-8-8-4 configuration wheels
Full Interiror design
Light bricks for engine room
Old Railway snow base
9 Minifigs

1-Artyom – The player character and protagonist of the game, returning from previous instalments of the series.
2-Colonel Miller – The Sparta Order’s leader, commander of the Aurora
3-Anna – Artyom’s wife and best sniper of the Ranger Order
4-Yermak – Helmsman of the Aurora as well as the driving force behind all of its mechanisms, he used to work as personnel in the Moscow Metro before the war.
5-Idiot – One of the smartest men aboard the train, he is considered its resident philosopher.
6-Tokarev – The weapons expert of the armoured train’s crew, responsible for creating many of the Order’s weapons and modifications
7-Stepan – Specialising in heavy weapons as one of the strongest fighters aboard the train, he is taller than all members of the Aurora’s crew. Even though he may appear intimidating, Stepan is a hopeless romantic and always wants to help those in need.
8-Katya – A trained nurse who initially survived with her daughter in the Southern Urals, she moved north towards the Volga River. They were both captured by the Church of the Water Tsar and its leader Silantius.
9-Nastya – Katya’s daughter, was captured by the Church of the Water Tsar along with her mother. Particularly hated Silantius as he smashed her flashlight in his technophobic zeal.

Idiot: “How about Aurora? The Roman goddess of dawn and a cruiser of, uh, you know what…
Alyosha: “Not bad! I like it.”
Yermak: “a beautiful name…”
Sam: “Sounds OK… but a cruiser of what?”
Alyosha:”I’ll tell you later…”
Miller:”Looks like it’s decided…”
Miller:”Lets drink to AURORA!!!”
TO THE AURORA!!!