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Recently, two high-power diesel locomotives designed and manufactured by CRRC Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. for the China-Laos Railway successfully arrived in Boten, Laos, and officially "listed" the China-Laos Railway.
It is understood that these two locomotives are 6000 horsepower AC transmission diesel locomotives, with large traction, low emissions, good reliability, high safety, convenient operation, low cost and other characteristics, is a specially tailored diesel locomotive for the China-Laos Railway, in many aspects of the design according to local conditions.
It is reported that these two locomotives undertake traction tasks such as trunk line traction, shunting operation, small operation and emergency handling in the Boding to Vientiane section of the China-Laos Railway, improve the freight operation capacity of the line, and solve the bottleneck of large-tonnage transportation.
The China-Laos Railway runs from Kunming, China in the north to Vientiane, Laos in the south, with a total length of 1,035 kilometers, and has been booming for both passengers and cargo since its opening on December 3, 2021.