ChS4

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ChS4
Specifications
Power type	Electric
Builder	Škoda Works
Build date	1963-1972
Total produced	232
Gauge	1,524 mm (5 ft)
Wheel diameter	1250 mm
Length	19,980 mm (787 in)
Height	5,240 mm (206 in)
Axle load	20.5 t
Locomotive weight	123 t
Electric system(s)	25 kV AC 50Hz
Current collection method	Pantograph
Top speed	160 km/h (99 mph)
Power output	5100 kW
Career
Railroad(s)	РЖД (RZhD), БЧ (BCh), УЗ (UZ)
Locale	Russia Soviet Union Belarus Ukraine

The ChS4 (Czech: ČS4, Russian: ЧС4) is an electric mainline AC passenger locomotive used in Russia, Ukraine and other exUSSR countries.

ChS4T modification

To overcome some ChS4 shortcomings, in 1971 a modernized version of locomotive was released. Its is known as ChS4T in USSR and as 62E in Czechoslovakia.

Gallery

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  ChS4-012 at the Central Museum of Railway Transport, Russian Federation, at Varshavsky Rail Terminal, St.Petersburg

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  ChS4-012 at the Central Museum of Railway Transport, Russian Federation, at Varshavsky Rail Terminal, St.Petersburg

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  ChS4-012 at the Central Museum of Railway Transport, Russian Federation, at Varshavsky Rail Terminal, St.Petersburg

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  ChS4-012 at the Central Museum of Railway Transport, Russian Federation, at Varshavsky Rail Terminal, St.Petersburg

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Electric locomotive ChS4.

• 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