ChS2

ChS2
Locomotive ChS2-095 at Dnipro-Vantazhny railway station, Ukraine
Type and origin Power type Electric Builder Škoda Works Build date 1958-1976 Number rebuilt ChS2 and ChS2K - 942 ChS2T - 120
Specifications Gauge 1,524 mm (5 ft) 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Russian gauge Electric system/s 3 kV DC Catenary Current pickup Pantograph
Performance figures Maximum speed 160 km/h (99 mph)
Career Operators РЖД (RZhD), УЗ (UZ) Locale Russia Soviet Union Ukraine

The ChS2 Russian: ЧС2 is an electric mainline DC passenger locomotive used in Russia and Ukraine. It was manufactured by the Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia between 1958 and 1973. and the locomotive get their nickname, Cheburashka, the oversized ears of the popular Soviet animated character of the same name

Gallery

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  ChS2-023 at the Central Museum of Railway Transport, Varshavsky Rail Terminal, St. Petersburg
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  ChS2-095 at Dnipro railway station, Ukraine
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  ChS2-168 at Omsk railway station
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  ChS2-479
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  ChS2K-895
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  ChS2T-966

See also

• The Museum of the Moscow Railway, at Paveletsky Rail Terminal, Moscow
• Rizhsky Rail Terminal, Moscow, Home of the Moscow Railway Museum
• Varshavsky Rail Terminal, St.Petersburg, Home of the Central Museum of Railway Transport, Russian Federation
• History of rail transport in Russia