A TGM3 converted to electric operation on a train on the Hambuk Line.
Type and origin
Data reflects ТЭМ1 units, the most numerous in the series
Power type
Diesel-electric
Builder
Bryansk Soviet Union
Build date
1958-1968
Specifications
Configuration:
• UIC
Co-Co
Gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Russian gauge
Wheel diameter
1,050 mm (3 ft 5 in)
Wheelbase
12,800 mm (42 ft 0 in)
Length
19,969 mm (65 ft 6.2 in)
Width
3.080 mm (0.1213 in)
Height
4,643 mm (15 ft 2.8 in)
Axle load
21 t (46,000 lb)
Loco weight
120 t (260,000 lb)
Fuel type
Diesel
Fuel capacity
5,440 kg (11,990 lb)
Fuel consumption
224 g (0.494 lb)/kWh
Prime mover
2D50
RPM range
740 rpm
Engine type
4 stroke straight-6 Diesel engine
Traction motors
6 x EDT-200B
Transmission
Electrical
Couplers
AAR knuckle
Performance figures
Maximum speed
90 km/h (56 mph)
Power output
735.5 kW (986.3 hp)
Tractive effort
196.1 kN (44,100 lbf)
The 500 series locomotives are a group of diesel-electric and diesel-hydraulic locomotives bought either new or second-hand by the Korean State Railway from the Soviet Union and Russia. The series includes several types of locomotive, all numbered in the 내연5xx range. The exact assignment of running numbers is not known, nor is the total number of units imported - or even all the types included in this series. However, the following are known:
ТЭМ1 - Diesel-electric. Soviet-made derivative of the American ALCO RSD-1. Around 20 units imported in the early 1990s.[1] 내연569 is operational in the Namp'o area.[2]
ТЭМ2 - Diesel-electric. Further development of the ТЭМ1. Number imported is not known, but at least two – 내연587 is operational in the P'yŏngyang area in a livery like the ТЭМ1s, and another has been seen painted in the North Korean standard light blue over dark green colours.
ТГМ3Б - Diesel-hydraulic. Eleven imported new from the USSR in 1972–73.[3] Very similar to the SM15-class of the Polish State Railways. At least one converted to electric operation via pantograph.
ТГМ4 - Diesel-hydraulic. Two imported new in 1985.[3]
ТГМ4БЛ - Diesel-hydraulic. Two imported new in 1991.[3]
ТГМ8Э - Diesel-hydraulic. Export version of ТГМ6, same as JŽ series 744. A total of nine were imported new - 4 in 1986 and 5 in 1990.[3]
Some second hand broad gauge (1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Russian gauge) units are operation around Rajin since the conversion of the Hongŭi Line from Tumangang on the DPRK-Russia border to Hongŭi, and of a section of the Hambuk Line from Hongŭi to Rajin to dual (standard and broad) gauge, completed in 2013.[4]
^"【原创】朝鲜铁路机车车辆概况一览 -- 一介书生" [[Original] Korea List of railway rolling stock before - scholar]. CCHere (in Chinese).
^Kokubu, Hayato (January 2007). 将軍様の鉄道 (in Japanese). Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. p. 103. ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.
^ abcd"Экспортные тепловозы" [Export Locomotives]. scado.narod.ru (in Russian).
^"Khasan-Rajin line renovation". ITAR TASS. 2013-09-22.
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