The TE2 (; ) is a class of
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diesel-electric locomotive
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s built by
Malyshev Factory
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in
Kharkiv
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, from 1948 to 1955. It is nominally a two-unit version of class
TE1 but is very different in appearance. While the TE1 is a Co-Co
hood unit
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, the TE2 is a Bo-Bo+Bo-Bo
cab unit
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"Carbody unit" is a related term, which may be either a cabless booster unit controlled from a linked cab unit, or a cab unit that con ...
.
Powertrain
Each of the two units is powered by a
Penza
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D50
4-stroke 6 cylinder
supercharged diesel engine
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and has four
DC traction motor
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Traction motors are used in electrically powered rail vehicles ( electric multiple ...
s.
Production
Prototypes were built in 1948 and 1949 and series production ran from 1950 to 1955.
[ A total of 528 pairs was built.][Rakov (1995), p. 379-381.] Each pair carried a single number in the range 001 to 528.[
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Preservation
A TE2-414 is preserved at the Museum of Railway Technology, Saint Petersburg
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.
TE4
The TE4 was an experimental modification of a TE2, designed to run on solid fuel by using a producer gas system. The gas generator was mounted on a four-axle non-powered unit, placed between the TE2 power units, making a wheel arrangement of Bo-Bo+2-2+Bo-Bo. It was not a success and was converted back to a TE2. ''See ТЭ4 at the Russian-language Wikipedia.''
TE6
The TE6 was a class of sixteen TE2-type locomotives ordered by the Ministry of Defence in 1952. They were single-section and their purpose was to serve as locomotives or mobile alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction. Alternating current is the form in whic ...
generators.[ They were designed to "meet the requirements of protection against injury factors of a nuclear explosion". ТЭ6br>]
References
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Railway locomotives introduced in 1948
TE2
5 ft gauge locomotives
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