Jul 2, 2019 · The first purpose-built passenger locomotive was the TEP60, a 3,000hp Co-Co first introduced in 1961. It was highly successful and more than 1,200 were delivered over the next 24 years. But something more powerful still was needed.

The TEP70 is a main line single-unit diesel locomotive, rated at 2,964 kW (3,975 hp), with AC/DC transmission and individual axle traction control, designed to haul passenger trains on the Russian gauge railway network of eastern Europe. As of 2022, it is still in service in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Kazakhstan.

Jan 30, 2024 · The fact is that during preliminary tests, an experienced driver was able to accelerate the first TEP60 to an unimaginable 193 km/h! This became an absolute record for thermally powered passenger vehicles of that time.

Mar 13, 2004 · Beautifully painted passenger diesel locomotive TEP60-0443 in the depot of Brest. Brest, 15-07-2005. Digital photo by Marco van Uden

TEP60 / ТЭП60 - diesel locomotive build by KTZ.

From 1960 to 1987, a total of 1,472 diesel-electric engines of the class TEP60 were built, as well as 116 double units 2TEP60, totalling 1,704 units. Since 1961, the TEP60 locomotives hauled in Estonia up to 18-car and 1,050-tonne express trains.

THE TEP60 PASSENGER DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE PASSAZHIRSKIY TEPLOVOZ TEP60. This book deals with the design features of the 11D45 (11D45A) Diesel and its component units. The authors study the electrical machinery, describe the personnel functions, and supply information on the care of the Diesel.

Apr 27, 2008 · TEP60-0429 (Belorussian loco) 21.07.2008 Kyviškės - Elektrinių traukinių depas

TEP60 is a passenger diesel engine produced in the USSR at the locomotive manufacturing plant in Kolomna (Moscow region) from 1960 to 1985. Out of 1241 units produced in total 32 units are still operated by Belarus Railways as of September 2014. TEP60 was built in 1967.

Jan 17, 2025 · One of the most interesting is the former C&O 2-6-6-2 restored by the Western Maryland Scenic Railway, the last steam loco ever built by Baldwin for a North American railroad, delivered in 1949. It only operated for four years before being retired.