Heikki

Tuesdays are now office days, so I went there. I had lunch with Timo and Kaitsu in Toyota Tammer-Auto canteen, they were only ones from our team who were in the office today. 

In front of our plant is an old lokomotive: H8/Hv1 class lokomotive No. 575. It was the first locomotive manufactured by Lokomo and entered service in 1920. Nickname of H8/Hv1 lokomotives was Heikki. In the photo is a detail of it.

Because of the increasing weight of trains, around 1910 there was a need for a more powerful passenger train locomotive, and the Finnish State Railways ordered a new design from Tampella and Lokomo. The initial maximum speed was 80 km/h but this was increased to 95 km/h in 1934. Hv1 locomotives were in use on passenger trains throughout Finland for 50 years. The last of these locomotives was withdrawn in 1967. The very similar locomotive types Hv2 and Hv3 were built later.

In the afternoon had water exercise and later in the evening participated to a deep relaxation practice via Teams.


+0,7 °C, cloudy