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Soviet locomotive class TE2
🇷🇺 Soviet Union ·built by Malyshev Factory· from 1948· class of 527 Soviet Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′ locomotives
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TE2-20-001 Kharkiv: неизвестен, архивное фото· Public domain
- 2. Freight diesel locomotive TE2-414 (3): George Shuklin· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3. Locomotive te2-025: Wikimedia Commons· Public domain
- 4. TE2-088 on EXPO-1520 in 2019: Self-photographed· CC0
- 5. TE2-088: Self-photographed· CC0
- 6. TE2-20-001 with train at Kiev-Pass. station: неизвестен, архивное фото· Public domain
- 7. TE2-375 1960-s: Artem Svetlov from Moscow, Russia· CC BY 2.0
- 8. Diesel locomotives TE2-125: Surovyi at Russian Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 9. Freight diesel locomotive TE2-125: Novoklimov· CC0
- 10. Museum of the Moscow Railway at Rizhskaya station in Moscow (29): NearEMPTiness· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The TE2 (Russian: ТЭ2; Ukrainian: ТЕ2) is a class of Soviet diesel-electric locomotives built by Malyshev Factory in Kharkiv, Ukraine, from 1948 to 1955. It is nominally a two-unit version of the TE1, but is very different in appearance. While the TE1 is a Co-Co hood unit, the TE2 is a Bo-Bo+Bo-Bo cab unit.
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 78 years ago, in 1948.
- 736 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1948–1955
- number built
- 527
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- builders
- Malyshev Factory
- operators
- Soviet Railways
- top speed
- 93 km/h
- power
- 736 kW
- gauge
- 1,520 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo-Bo+Bo-Bo
- length
- 12 m
- weight
- 83.3 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4449100, Wikipedia: Soviet locomotive class TE2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.