Tk-3 1147, Rovaniemi, Finland
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Team Sieni
N 66° 29.909 E 025° 42.511
35W E 442533 N 7376067
Pikku-Jumbo (Little Jumbo) locomotive 1147 on display at Rovaniemi railway station, Finland.
Waymark Code: WM4N8Z
Location: Finland
Date Posted: 09/10/2008
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member TheBeanTeam
Views: 89
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This locomotive is a TK3 2-8-0 "Pikku-Jumbo" ("Little Jumbo") Tavarajunaveturi (Freight Locomotive).

Type Tk-3 "Pikku Jumbo" locomotives were built between 1928 - 1953, in all 161 were built - an indication of their reliability. They were used on freight trains and slow passenger trains. By the 1970s they were used mainly in marshalling yards, and some were in use up until the time when VR (Suomen Valtion Rautatiet - Finnish Railways) ended the use of steam in 1975.[2]

Tk-3s were mainly built by Finnish manufacturers Tampella and Lokomo. However this particular one was one of a batch of 20 (Nos 1147-1166) built by the Danish manufacturer AS Frichs in Aarhus and assembled at Hyvinkää, Finland in 1949 [1]

VR have informed me this locomotive was restored by former locomotive drivers, and that it used to operate in the Rovaniemi area.

Links (mostly in Finnish)

  1. Suomen höyryveturit Finnish Steam Locomotives
  2. Porvoo Railway A page about locomotive TK3 1168 with more info on type TK3
  3. vaunut.org Another picture of this locomotive

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