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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(s) 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.

Gallery

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

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

References

1. Article "Легендарная "двойка" - качество, проверенное временем"

• Railway locomotives introduced in 1958
• Škoda locomotives
• Electric locomotives of Russia
• Electric locomotives of Ukraine
• Electric locomotives of the Soviet Union
• 3000 V DC locomotives
• 5 ft gauge locomotives