The M62 is a Soviet-built diesel locomotive for heavy freight trains, exported to many Eastern Bloc countries as well as to Cuba, North Korea and Mongolia. Beside the single locomotive M62 also twin versions 2M62 and three-section versions 3M62 have been built. A total number of 7,164 single sections have been produced, which have been used to build 5,231 single-, twin- and three-section locomotives.
M62 locomotive in Baranovichi, Belarus
First made M62-1
ST44-001, the first of the class, preserved at Stacja Muzeum in Warsaw
ST44-133
The Korean State Railway, commonly called the State Rail, is the operating arm of the Ministry of Railways of North Korea and has its headquarters at P'yŏngyang. The current Minister of Railways is Chang Jun-song.
Ceremony commemorating the completion of the electrification of the Yangdŏk–Sinch'ang section of the P'yŏngwŏn Line in 1948.
A Japanese-built Purŏp'a (부러파) class locomotive in the DPRK during the Korean War.
The ruins of steam locomotive Matei 10, destroyed during the Korean War, at Changdan in 1976.
The Japanese-made electric locomotives inherited from Sentetsu played a key early role in reviving and implementing electrification plans.