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Russia, The Moscow railway, Diesel locomotive 2TE109-0202 at station Bryansk Lgovsky (Áðÿíñê Ëüãîâñêèé), June 2004 Photo by Roman Parhomenko, Moscow, Russia (prw@7m.ru)

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2TE-121 diesel - electric locomotive was designed in 1978 in Lugansk as a radical new generation of the freight locomotives for Russian railways. It was destined for using in the extremal conditions of Arctic and Siberia. The large researches in VNITI scientific centre (Kolomna city, near Moscow) with this locomotive has given a lot of important information for the locomotive designers. For example, this researches has given the possibility to reduce of 20-30% the vertical oscillation of bogie's frame toward boxes in comparsion with the standard 3-axle bogie. The subject of locomotve driver's admiration was the large comfortable driver cabin with low noise and vibration; some compared this locomotive with luxurious car. 2TE-121 was successfully tested in various road and climatic conditions. Now the Northern railroad used the party of this locomotives. The main technical data: axle formula 2*(C-C), power 2*4000 hp, traction power 2*30 t, max. speed 100 km/h, axle load 25 t/axle, electric brakes. At the photo: 2TE-121 N 003 with dynamic laboratory car and convoy locomotive in the VNITI yard before next testing race, 1982. Photo and scan by Oleg V. Izmerov, <press@admin.bryansk.ru>

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SZD Class 3M62 with Mandsuria Express anywhere in Former Soviet Union. Photo: Unknown Scanned by Laszlo Szita (szita@yahoo.com)

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E_el-2 (at first named as Yu_e-001) is one of the oldest diesel-electric locomotives in world history. It designed in Russia by professor Yu. Lomonosov, and built in the November 1924 on the Esslingen plant in Germany for Russian railways. From 1925 E_el-2 was in Russia and it used with experimental trains near Moscow. In 1928 the system of diesel cooling was modernized, and E_el-2 was in use by Middle-Asian Railroad in Russia. It had a very hard work in deserts, mountains ang great non-water steppes. The E_el-2 was the proof of the possibilities and outlooks of diesel locomotives. It worked with trains near 30 years. Only from 1954 it was out of use. Technical parameters: Diesel: MAN, 6V45/42 1200 hp. Traction power: 900 hp. Axle formula: 1-5-1. Traction generator: BBC, 800 kW. Traction motors: 5*142 kW. Traction force: 15200 kg. Full weight: 124,8 tons. Lenght: 14,2 m. Height: 5,2 m. Width: 3,1 m. Traction wheels: 1,22 m. In a photo: E_el-2 after the first test in Esslingen, November, 6, 1924. The designers and guests are near the locomotive. Photo: Unknown author. Scan by Oleg Izmerov, <press@admin.bryansk.ru> .

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Commuter train Golutvin-Ozery. Kolomna. 21.08.2004. © Artem Svetlov. trolleway @ narod.ru, http://trolleway.tramvaj.ru

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Diesel locomotive TE10 (ТЭ10) 015 at Moscow exhibition. Photo by Vasily Dmitriev (contact e-mail: mykola@kture.kharkov.ua) Scanned by Mykola Volovenko (mykola@kture.kharkov.ua, processed and uploaded by Serguei Trouchelle (stro@isd.dp.ua)

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Diesel locomotive TE3 number 6229, section "B" on Tomsk-II station. Photo by Alexander Danilov

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Disel locomotive TEP10-205. VNIIZT. Sherbinka, Moscow. 01.08.2003. Railman day-2003. © Artem Svetlov. trolleway @ narod.ru, http://trolleway.tramvaj.ru

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Russian passenger diesel locomotive TEP-80-0003 in Sherbinka depot during the testing. Currently it is preparing to take service on RZD routes. One of the fastets (or even fastest) diesel in the world! Design speed is 160 kmph, but during the testing it showed the ultimate 273 kmph. Photo by Donat Babanov Uploaded by Antony Urinovski (eno@sendmail.ru)