Locomobile TMB-2 admitted to the steel trunks

Russian locomobile TMV-2 certified for W/d General use

 Five years ago CTT-2013 "Oralvaginal" flashed the first domestic specialized "traction module wagons" TMB-2, then just became the same show-stopper of the exhibition.

However, this locomobile commercially available in 2014, and have not been any mass, since the production of this interesting machine was very limited because of legal restrictions on the scope of activities is only closed areas (ports, industrial enterprises and repair depots).

And finally, TMB-2 received a certificate of conformity to requirements of technical regulations of the Customs Union (CU) with the right of access to the railway lines for General use, i.e. it became a locomotive.
Accordingly, for such shunting operation, the portable engine is equipped with so-called safe locomotive joint complex "BLOK-M", which allows the operator of the portable engine to monitor the semaphore signals, and the train dispatcher to track the location of a car.
Locomobile necessary where conventional locomotive (and even less powerful motor) is closely (for example, on ferries, in the shops and depots of the urban rail transport), and the possibility of using the combined wheel / rail turn (by the way, both his bridge lead and managed) is particularly advantageous.

This locomobile can be used in the form of a road-cleaning machine – brush snow blower or blade. This, of course, the locomobile almost an order of magnitude cheaper than the present locomotive, as less and operating costs.

Itself TMB-2 equipped with a 165-horsepower diesel engine, allowing to develop traction up to 5 t, Cheng enough to pull the train of 15 wagons, a total weight of 700 tons, and under especially favorable conditions and up to 1000 tons On wheels locomobile speeds up to 40 km/h, but on the tracks it is limited to 15 km/h W/d during the rut, of course, is 1520 mm and the wheelbase – 1590mm (plus or minus 20 mm).

The main customer TMB-2 while speaking, naturally of JSC "Russian Railways", which bought a batch of ten such vehicles in the framework of the project "Introduction of resource saving technologies in rail transport". Operated steam engines in the depot of various cities in the directorates of the motor-car rolling stock.