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Steam engine OV 841 (1903) at Moscow railway museum at Rizhsky Vokzal. 13.2.2008 Martin P.

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Steam locomotive Ov-841 in Moscow railway museum. 2008-08-18. tobias b köhler

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Ov.841 Moscow, railroad museum in Rizhskij terminal. Москва, железнодорожный музей на Рижском вокзале 07.05.2005. © Artem Svetlov. trolleway @ aport.ru Electrical transport of Moscow region

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The 0-4-0 freight steam locomotives of the "O" series was the best of Russian steam locomotives, which were designed in 19th century. The most known modifications in Russia is the Od (first unit built in 1897) and the Ov (first unit built in 1905). This locomotives produced by several machinery works in Russian Empire till the First World War. The locomotive drivers likes this locomotives for their simplicity and reliability in a very hard operational conditions. The Ov locomotive unoficially called by railroad men as "Ovechka" ("The Sheepy"). In the period of the Russian accelerated industrialization (1930-1960) this steam locomotives were used by local lines, and then as the shunting and the industrial ones. Some of them were in use sixty years. One of the Od locomotive, made by the Bryansk Engineering Works in the beginning of this century, ended its job in 1964 as shunting in the yard of this works, and it was mounted there as the memorial. The main technical data of the Ov (Od): power 600 hp, max. speed 50 (45) km/h, weight 52,5 tons, traction power 16.8 (16.1) km/h, steam pressure 12 (11.5) kg/m2. In the photo: Ov in 1905. Photo: unknown author. Scan by Oleg V. Izmerov <press@admin.bryansk.ru>