2009. TE3 was the first main line diesel locomotive in the Soviet Union, powered by a copy of a Fairbanks-Morse marine engine. 6797.5 double locos of this distinctive design were built in 1955-73. TE7, a faster passenger version, appeared in 1957. This well produced monograph contains 15 pages of history in Russian only with a one-page English summary, 88 photographs (24 in colour) with bilingual captions, detailed line drawings, lists of the allocations of the 113 TE7s and the 68 triple locos 3TE3, and a list of the 30 units still in stock with the Russian railways. 72 pages A4, sb