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Diesel engine at Moscow railway museum at Rizhsky Vokzal. 13.2.2008 Martin P. |
Diesel locomotive TE2-125 in Moscow railway museum. 2008-08-18. |
Section of disel locomotive TE2-125. Moscow railroad museum, Rizskiy railway terminal. 31.07.2004. © Artem Svetlov. trolleway @ narod.ru, http://trolleway.tramvaj.ru |
Class TE2 Diesel (Electric) Freight Locomotive (TE2-414).
1000 hp - 93 km/h. Built in 1954 by the Khar'kov workshops, and mainly used on the Oktyabr'skaya and Zapadno-Kazakhstana railways. October Railway Museum. 26 June 2011.
P.L. Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr) |
Class TE2 Diesel (Electric) Freight Locomotive (TE2-414).
1000 hp - 93 km/h. Built in 1954 by the Khar'kov workshops, and mainly used on the Oktyabr'skaya and Zapadno-Kazakhstana railways. October Railway Museum. 26 June 2011.
P.L. Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr) |
Class TE2 Diesel (Electric) Freight Locomotive (TE2-414).
1000 hp - 93 km/h. Built in 1954 by the Khar'kov workshops, and mainly used on the Oktyabr'skaya and Zapadno-Kazakhstana railways. October Railway Museum. 26 June 2011.
P.L. Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr) |
Disel locomotive TE2. VNIIZT. Sherbinka, Moscow. 01.08.2004. Railman day-2004. © Artem Svetlov. trolleway @ narod.ru, http://trolleway.tramvaj.ru |
TE-2. From 1948 to 1955 Kharkov heavy machinery works produced two-section diesel - electric
locomotives TE-2 for Russian railways. This locomotives generally used by the Middle -
Asian railroad, a great trunk line from the Ural mountains in Russia through the Kasakhstan
steppes and deserts to the Iran and China.
TE-2 was a popular locomotive, because its construction was wery simple, and by sigh of the
locomotive drivers, it was "unbreakable". This properties was wery important in the extremal
climatic conditions. What is why the journalists at that time called TE-2 as "The King of
Desert".
The main technical data: axle formula 2*(2-2), power 2*1000 hp, weight 2*85 tons, traction power 2*11 tons on the speed 17km/h, max. speed 90 km/h. In a photo: "The King of Desert" in Kara - Kumi Desert.
Photo by M. Khorungiy, 1957. |