European Railroad Discussion > Turku Finland, 6/1 & 2/04

6/1/04
1. VR Dv16 #2040 is the highest numbered of the 27 units in the class.
2. A marker was in the knuckle coupler of a Russian tank car at the rear of a train ready for departure.
3. At the other end of the freight train was an Sr2.  I never saw an American-style trailer on a flat car (TOFC) in Finland, but occasionally I did see this configuration of a 3-axle truck and a four-axle trailer.  The blue truck is probably empty.  Lapin Kulta (Lapland Gold) was a beer brewed in Tornio about 750 miles north of Turku.  I’ve had quite a few.  With gasoline costing 6 to 7 US dollars per gallon in 2004 (I don’t know what diesel cost) it was probably the most cost-effective way to transport the truck, and only local drivers were needed.

Gerry

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6/1/04
4. In the same train as pictured above was this mining dump truck (I think it was built in or near Turku) on a Russian depressed-center flat car.
5 & 6. VR cars were at the front of the train and Russian cars at the rear.  This VR 2-axle flat car was equipped with both VR hook and link couplers with buffers and Russian knuckle couplers.

Gerry

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6/2/04
7. VR train IC2 #139 led by Sr2 #3223 arrived on Track #7 passing a freight train led by two Sr1s waiting to depart.
8 & 9. And there it goes.

Gerry

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6/2/04
10. Dv16 #2014 had
11. a Tampella diesel and
12. a Voith hydraulic transmission.

Gerry

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6/2/04
13. Dv16 #2014 also had this lubrication device.  I looked at several other Dv16s and Dv15s and couldn’t find another like it.
14. Dv16 #2014 went into the roundhouse.
15. Åbo (pronounced like the double reed wind instrument: oboe) is the Swedish name for Turku.  Both translate to marketplace.
 
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Finnish_locomotives
 
Gerry

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