OPE1-397 moving down the Bogatyr spoil heaps 12th May 2024. ОПЭ1-397 на Богатырских отвалах, Экибастуз. 12 мая 2024 г. ОПЭ1-397 Богатырь үйінділерінде, Екібастұз қ. 2024 жылдың 12 мамыры.
Traction unit OPE1-397, built in 1987, moves down the srawling spoil heaps of the Bogatyr' open cast coal mine, after tipping another load of stone. Ekibastuz, Pavlodar region, Kazakhstan. May the 12th 2024.
Nikkor ED 300mm 1:2.8
These are an early design of mine traction units, utilising both electric and diesel, an electro-diesel based on the VL11/80 bodyshell and constructed by the Rostov electric locomotive factory. Here, the diesel function is seldom if ever used, and the first wagon is a slave traction unit. One of the main problems of these units is the cab design, not suited to the work here where the driver must change ends when the locomotive changes direction, which is of course frequent. So the PE2 type was developed from this in Dnipropetrovsk'. But, all told, 417 of these attractive units were built from 1969 up to 2002, although from 1988 onwards only sixteen were produced!
OPE1-397 moving down the Bogatyr spoil heaps 12th May 2024. ОПЭ1-397 на Богатырских отвалах, Экибастуз. 12 мая 2024 г. ОПЭ1-397 Богатырь үйінділерінде, Екібастұз қ. 2024 жылдың 12 мамыры.
Traction unit OPE1-397, built in 1987, moves down the srawling spoil heaps of the Bogatyr' open cast coal mine, after tipping another load of stone. Ekibastuz, Pavlodar region, Kazakhstan. May the 12th 2024.
Nikkor ED 300mm 1:2.8
These are an early design of mine traction units, utilising both electric and diesel, an electro-diesel based on the VL11/80 bodyshell and constructed by the Rostov electric locomotive factory. Here, the diesel function is seldom if ever used, and the first wagon is a slave traction unit. One of the main problems of these units is the cab design, not suited to the work here where the driver must change ends when the locomotive changes direction, which is of course frequent. So the PE2 type was developed from this in Dnipropetrovsk'. But, all told, 417 of these attractive units were built from 1969 up to 2002, although from 1988 onwards only sixteen were produced!