M62 locomotive

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M62 (Motor (Motormozdony), 6-axle, type 2) is a class of Soviet mainline freight and passenger diesel-electric locomotives, manufactured in the USSR and Ukraine at the Voroshilovgrad Locomotive Works (later Luhanskteplovoz (LTZ)) between 1964 and 2001. The first model of the locomotive was developed for Hungarian Railways in Hungary (HNR). The locomotives were produced serially for export from 1965, and for the USSR Ministry of Railways from 1970). For deliveries to the USSR Ministry of Railways, the designation according to the standard LTZ numbering was chosen — series TE112 (diesel locomotive with electric transmission, type 112), however, the Hungarian designation was ultimately retained. The M62 became the first mainline diesel locomotive supplied by the USSR for export. In some countries (for example, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary), these machines, designated according to their own standards, became the main locomotive series. In the 1980s, new modifications of standardized...

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