VR Class Pr2

what is it?

The Finnish VR Class Pr2, nicknamed "Henschel", was a passenger tank class ordered from the Henschel & Son locomotive workshops by the Estonia State Railways in the spring 1939 and completed in 1941. The outbreak of the Second World War prevented their delivery to Estonia, but at least a few of these engines did manage to operate in Latvia in 1942. These engines became superfluous, because the Germans were converting the Baltic tracks to standard gauge, and so Finland could purchase these four engines.

who runs it

base stats

• speed 100 km/htop speed
• weight 114 tin working order
• built 4made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

• 🎂First built 87 years ago, in 1939.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏16.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
• ⌛Served for 18 years (1942–1960).

steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.

spec sheet

built

1939

in service from

1942

retired

1960

status

retired

number built

4

kind

Steam

traction

steam

origin

🇫🇮 Finland

builders

Henschel & Sohn

operators

Finnish State Railways

top speed

100 km/h

power

—

gauge

1,524 mm Russian broad gauge

wheel arrangement

4-6-4T

length

16.2 m

weight

114 t

nicknames

"Henskeli"

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.