Nordic: Big American Diesels, Mx/Tmx

[McKey]

A Lot! Just wait until I get to next parts of this series articles :)

CSSHEGEWISCH

The NOHAB's appear to be the first sizable appearance of EMD or EMD-licensed designs in European railroading.  With the exception of Ireland, how much of a presence did EMD designs have in Europe prior to the introduction of the Class 66 (JT42CWR)?

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

The NOHAB's appear to be the first sizable appearance of EMD or EMD-licensed designs in European railroading.  With the exception of Ireland, how much of a presence did EMD designs have in Europe prior to the introduction of the Class 66 (JT42CWR)?

[McKey]

Next Tmx is found working for the Railcare (now part of French operator Captrain) in Nässjö, Sweden.

And finally, here is the original class Mx, since the classification in Denmark was recirculated. This is not a Nohab.The Danes have a wonderful, if small, railroad museum in Odense, quite near the museum for Hans Christian Andersen, whose stories we all know.

[McKey]

It is time to introduce on the Nohab Big American Diesels series the next "Droopy Dog", the Mx, or Tmx for the Swedes and Norwegians, plus of course the Danes.

After the My / Tmy (see: http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/741/t/221200.aspx )  was found so successful replacing the last steamers, less powerful version of the locomotive was manufactured in Trollhättan, Sweden in 1959-1962. Besides being used in normal gauge network one unit was on trial runs in Finland on 1524 mm network too if I remember correct. 45 units came into use for the DSB (Danish railways) according to Nohab old manufacturing catalog. The main difference is that the 12-567 on Mx was used in place of the 16-567 on My. For recognition this loco has a large square grille opening at one end of the loco, but don't mix this with this class Tmym, which might look quite similar outwardly. (It might be that this opening is at the left end of the side on Tmym and on the right side on Tmx, but so far I haven't been able to confirm this). But anyways the mid side of the Mx is covered, where as the My is quite like F7 with a continuous grille opening.

Now decades later we have seen many in use for their second, third or even fourth owner, but basically this model is much harder to spot than the existing Tmys. Most are now being used in Sweden and some in Denmark. These pictures were taken by Gerry and Ilkka, being more fortunate on this subject than me.


More pictures (and much larger pictures than fit between the frames here):
http://www.4rail.net/reference_denmark_gallery2.php#conrail_cmx

http://www.4rail.net/reference_sweden_gallery2_diesellocos.php#tagkraft_tmx

Below: Contec rail Mx at Ringsted (outside Copenhagen), Denmark helping track works. Pictures by Ilkka Siissalo.

Next, brightly colored Svensk Tågkraft Tmx in Hallsberg, Sweden. Picture by Gerry Putz.

Story continues in the next post...