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TU4 diesel locomotive
🇷🇺 Russia ·built by Kambarka Engineering Works· from 1962· locomotive class
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Кабіна тепловоза ТУ4 в садибі с. Бистриця: Valery Lysenko· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Tu4huhdinmaessa: Whoiswho· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. TU4soravaunuineen: Whoiswho· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Alapaevsk railway Sankina bridge 2022-09: Svetlov Artem· CC0
- 5. Alapayevsk-narrow-gauge bridge: Ольга Андрюхина· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 6. Gorokhovskoye peat railway TU4-1323: Ed4mk· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Mesherskoye peat enterprise (Bolon') 4: Mechanik1975· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 8. TU4 Baksheevo depot of Shatura narrow gauge railway (30538845954): Artem Svetlov from Moscow, Russia· CC BY 2.0
- 9. TU4 departs from Kerva southbound (25468283316): Artem Svetlov from Moscow, Russia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 10. Läggesta Nedre station, 2019m: Holger.Ellgaard· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
TU4 (ТУ4) is a Soviet narrow-gauge diesel locomotive for the track gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in).
base stats
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- Weighs about as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1962–1974
- number built
- 3,210
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- builders
- Kambarka Engineering Works
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 186 kW
- gauge
- 750 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 8.4 m
- weight
- 17.1 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q908334, Wikipedia: TU4 diesel locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.