VR Class Vk4
VR Class Vk4 | |
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Borsig Lokomotiv Werke (AEG) | |
Order number | 7268 and 7858 |
Build date | 1909-1910 |
Total produced | 2 |
Specifications | |
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Configuration: | |
• Whyte | 0-4-0T |
Gauge | 1,524 mm (5 ft) |
Length | 6.6 m |
Loco weight | 18 tonnes (18 long tons; 20 short tons) |
Fuel type | Coal or wood |
Career | |
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Numbers | 68 |
Nicknames | “Leena” |
First run | 1909 |
Withdrawn | 1967 |
Disposition | 68 Finnish Railway Museum |
The locomotive that came to form
The fortress was not needed after the
The second locomotive was purchased by the VR Kuopio depot and given the running number 68. The locomotive was still running in the 1960s. The locomotive was used until 1962 and finally withdrawn in 1967.[1] In the early 1980s it was restored externally and placed in the Kuopio locomotive shed. It was discovered in 1986 by Savo Steam Transport Museum. Unfortunately, the museum project floundered and the locomotive was plinthed outside a restaurant.[1]
In 2008 it was decided to restore the locomotive. On 24 March 2009, the locomotive was moved to Hyvinkää workshop, where ultrasound measurements were taken.[1] The final restoration was carried out by ABB Services and the Jokioinen Museum Railway, where the locomotive arrived on 8 May 2009. The locomotive was presented to the public on 17 June 2010.[2]
The locomotive is currently situated at the Finnish Railway Museum, and is steamed up several times every summer.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Leena on pieni, hidas ja tehoton | Häme". yle.fi. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
- ^ "Finnish Railway Museum - Welcome!". Rautatie.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
- Resiina 3/2010: Sakari K Salo: Kulttuuriteko - Vk4 LEENA, s. 26 - 31
- http://yle.fi/alueet/hame/2010/06/leena_on_pieni_hidas_ja_tehoton_1776781.html Finnish Website about Vk4
- Sakari K. Salo: Höyryveturikirja, s. 14. Helsinki: Kustantaja Laaksonen, 2009. ISBN 978-952-5805-12-3.
- Pölhö, Eljas – Pykälä-Aho, Mia: Suomen juna- ja raitiovaunukuvasto / Finnish Motive Power 1.1.1996., 1996. ISBN 91-7266-133-X. Finnish / English
- Katajisto, Juhani. (1985). Eilispäivän kulkuneuvoja.. Hämeenlinna:Tietoteos. ISBN 951-9035-79-6.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130516182252/http://www.rautatie.org/web/en/default.asp Finnish Railway Museum Official website
- http://www.srhs.fi/index4.htm Finnish website with locomotive technical data