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- 1. Tve2 Hy: Valtteri Keski-Säntti· CC BY 3.0
what is it?
VR Class Tve2 was a VR Group diesel shunting locomotive. They were ordered from the Saalasti Oy engineering company and built between 1962 and 1964. Locomotives was sent to the Turenki sugar factory.
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- Weighs about as much as 4 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
- retired
- 1990
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 8
- kind
- Diesel
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- builders
- Saalasti Oy
- operators
- Finnish State Railways
- top speed
- 45 km/h
- power
- 130 kW
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- length
- 7.2 m
- weight
- 26.6 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16192044, Wikipedia: VR Class Tve2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.