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Shunter TEM2-1327 at Vilnius.

Lithuanian State Railways (LG) Bo-BoDE shunter TEM2-1327 drifts into Vilnius main station while on station pilot duties having just collected a single baggage van.

These Soviet built locomotives were manufactured in large quantities for most East European countries between 1960 and 1989. They are a more powerful version of the TEM1 which can trace its ancestory back to the USA Alco built Class DA's the Russian took delivery of in 1944-45. The TME2's are fitted with a Penza type PD1M engine which is a 6 cylinder supercharged four stroke. They develope 883kW producing 347kN tractive effort.

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Uploaded on June 12, 2011
Taken on June 18, 2009