T669-0001 stands in the railway museum of Luzna u rakovnika on 13 May 2012. This engine was the very first of possibly the mostly build type of locomotiven on Earth. Hundreds of these Cmeliaks (Humming Bees) were deliverd to the erstwhile CSD as Classes T669.0 and T669.1 (later 770 and 771); dozens were also deliverd to industrial railways in Czecho-Slovakia and Poland. But the biggest hit came when the railways of the Soviet-Union SZD ordered a total of 7459 engines for heavy shunting duties, the last locos being deliverd years after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the disbanding of the USSR.

Leonardus Schrijvers 14.03.2020, 383 Calls, 0 Comments