“ChS4t” – the Czechoslovak/ USSR electric locomotive

In 1962 by order of the Soviet Economic Council of the USSR the national enterprise “Škoda”, also known then as the Plzeň plant, named after. V. I. Lenin (Plzen, Czechoslovakia) began to develop and design a six-axle AC electric locomotive for the railways of the USSR. In 1963 the first experimental electric locomotive S 699.001 (32E) was built, which became the basis for the construction of AC electric locomotives ChS4 (52E). At the end of 1965 the first six-axle passenger electric locomotive of the ChS4-001 series with factory type designation 52E0 arrived in the Soviet Union for testing at the Kavkazskaya depot. Electric locomotives of this series were put into operation at the Kirov, Rostov-Glavny, Bryansk-2, Rossosh, Kyiv-Passenger depots, and later were transferred to the Saratov and Balashov depots. In 1971 a deep modernization of ChS4 appeared on the roads - the ChS4t electric locomotive, factory designation of the 62E series. Subsequently, the number of issued ChS4t exceeded the number of ChS4 and amounted to more, than five hundred locomotives, with No. 232-740, and experienced, ChS4t-161, that is, a total of 510 units. In 1968 based on the ChS4 design, the “Škoda” plant began producing four-axle AC electric locomotives of the S 499.0 series.

A simple, well-designed and reasonably detailed model of an electric locomotive for modelers of any experience. There is detailing of the cabins, the current collector can be made both in the lowered and in the raised position.