It's a long time since I've seen so many Skodas in a line! Just outside of Moscow's Kiyevsky station is a line of CHS7 locomotives, built by Skoda at their Lenin plant in Plzen located in the Czech Republic. They were constructed between 1983 and 1999 into various sub-classes but the CHS7s remain almost Russia's most powerful electric locomotives. However, CHS7-198, to the right in this lineup, has its windscreens boarded over and looks as though it may be in some kind of storage. I am not sure if its neighbours, staring off with CHS7-025, are in the same situation or not?
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