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TE10
🇷🇺 Soviet Union ·built by Luhanskteplovoz· from 1960· class of Soviet diesel-electric locomotives
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8 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 2TE10M-2421 Rakhiv 2019 02: VargaA· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Soviet Railways ТЭП10Л: Ataman8888· CC0
- 3. Railway museum in Kharkiv 10: Завгородня Вероніка· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Railway museum in Kharkiv 11: Завгородня Вероніка· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Railway museum in Kharkiv 12: Завгородня Вероніка· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. TE10-015: Дмитрий Закутный· CC BY 4.0
- 7. Каган, бустер на Бухаре-1: Nikolai Bulykin· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Каган, ВЛ60-2125 с бустером на Бухаре-1 (1): Nikolai Bulykin· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The TE10 (Russian: ТЭ10) is a series of diesel-electric locomotives from the Soviet Union.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 2 MW is about 24 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1960–1997
- number built
- 8,227
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- builders
- Luhanskteplovoz, Malyshev Factory
- operators
- Soviet Railways
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 2 MW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- nicknames
- Chervontsi, Nautilus, Tens
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q428606, Wikipedia: TE10 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.