April 1, 2014. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation), started making a new kind of vehicles – tractive sections for TMV 2 carriages.

The machine was originally designed as an alternative to the diesel-locomotive shunter. The section is meant to replace the shunter primarily on the railways operated by industrial enterprises and therefore to reduce spending on the transportation of carriages and putting together trains where keeping a locomotive and a loco team or renting the expensive machinery make no economic sense.

The new mechanism can also be used by Russian Railways, as it can be converted into a utility vehicle if cleaning brushes or snow-clearing shovels are attached at the front.

This cross between a heavy goods vehicle and a loco can easily travel from one railway onto another, while the hydrostatic drive makes it possible for the section to start off with the maximum motive force that is required to move bulky cargo from one spot to another. The locomobile can easily relocate railway carriages and platforms weighing up to 1,000,000 kg. The machine was used to two between four and thirty empty carriages during the trials at Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant.