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- 1. RRO 2: Harveyqs· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
VR Class Rro was a locomotive of Finnish origin. The Rro portion of the name comes from a word RautatieRakennusOsasto which is the Railway Construction Department. The narrow gauge locomotive Rro 2 which is at the Finnish Railway Museum was originally used by TVH (the road engineering board) and numbered as TVH locomotive 5.
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 112 years ago, in 1914.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1914
- in service from
- 1914
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇫🇮 Finland
- builders
- Tampella
- operators
- VR Group
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 600 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-4-0
- weight
- 9 t
- nicknames
- “Yumeno”
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17099622, Wikipedia: VR Class Rro (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.