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TU7 diesel locomotive
🇷🇺 Soviet Union ·built by Kambarka Engineering Works· from 1971· locomotive class
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8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. KTU-pereslavl railway 20021013 151: Own work· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Night train at Golovanova Dacha, Tumskaya railway (10074710844): Artem Svetlov from Moscow, Russia· CC BY 2.0
- 3. 2025-06-07-ys-gagarin-park-tu7a: I13Robin· CC BY 4.0
- 4. Alapaevsk railway 2022 Strokinka 3: Svetlov Artem· CC0
- 5. Alapaevsk railway 2022 Strokinka 4: Svetlov Artem· CC0
- 6. Alapaevsk railway 2022 Strokinka 5: Svetlov Artem· CC0
- 7. Alapaevsk railway 2022 Strokinka: Svetlov Artem· CC0
- 8. Alapaevsk railway 2022-09 Strokinka 2: Svetlov Artem· CC0
what is it?
TU7 (ТУ7) - Soviet, later Russian diesel locomotive for gauge 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) – 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in).
who runs it
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 55 years ago, in 1971.
- Weighs about as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.4 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1971
- number built
- 2,500
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- builders
- Kambarka Engineering Works
- operators
- Vietnam Railways
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 298 kW
- gauge
- 750 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 9.4 m
- weight
- 24 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q943029, Wikipedia: TU7 diesel locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.