SŽD series ЧМЭ5
| SŽD series ЧМЭ5 | |
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 ЧМЭ5.0008
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| Numbering: | ЧМЭ5.0001–0012 |
| Number: | 12 |
| Manufacturer: | ČKD Praha |
| Year of construction (s): | 1985 |
| Retirement: | after 1990 |
| Axis formula : | (Bo'Bo ') (Bo'Bo') |
| Gauge : | 1,520 mm |
| Service mass: | 168 t |
| Friction mass: | 168 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 21 t |
| Top speed: | 95 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 1 × 2,000 hp |
| Wheel diameter: | 1,050 mm |
| Water supply: | 1,500 l |
| Fuel supply: | 6,000 l |
| Drive: | diesel-electric |
| Coupling type: | SA-3 (central buffer coupling) |
The locomotive of the class LokМЭ5 (German transcription TSCHME5) of the Soviet Railways (SŽD) is a broad-gauge diesel locomotive , which was intended as a further development of the SŽD series ЧМЭ3 and was obviously a suggestion of the SŽD series ТЭМ7 . The locomotives did not get beyond the prototype status and are no longer in service today.
history
In 1985, on the order of the Ministry of Railways of the former USSR , the Czechoslovak factory ČKD Prague delivered two experimental locomotives with an eight-axle version. The new locomotive was obviously inspired by the SŽD series ТЭМ7, which appeared ten years earlier, and was intended as a further development of the SŽD series ЧМЭ3 . Since the mass of the locomotive increased for the increased engine output of 2000 HP, only one version remained as an eight-axle locomotive analogous to the SŽD series ТЭМ7. Four two-axle bogies were rotatably mounted on two intermediate frames each. It is unclear whether these intermediate racks were fixed or rotatable with the main frame. A locomotive that ЧМЭ5.0002 in 1986 at the international fair railway transport 86 in the station shcherbinka issued.
Twelve of these diesel locomotives were built, of which the first two locomotives of the depot Lyublino and the remaining ten locomotives the depot Debaltseve been sent. No other locomotives followed. They haven't been in the company for a long time. In 2012 only the ЧМЭ5.0008 were preserved in the Railway Museum in Donetsk , the remaining locomotives were scrapped.
