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Brand new MADE IN USSR (as proudly stated on brass plaque on each engine) electric, angrily munching the chain hook that it needs to pull this rush hour commuter.
Before the electrification in 72 the commuter trains to Kerava and Riihimäki had been the last to run on steam, The "Pr1" locomotive got nickname "paikku" and for whatever reason the dieselized commuter routes retained the name, and logically then, these were "sähköpaikku", electric-paikku. There was also "ruuhkapaikku", rosh hour -paikku when the last steam commuters ran on rush hour. That nick name was also recycled for the "letterless" ruch hour trains that ran extra services with the last wooden carriages, later.
Theme is Tiesto: Suburban Train :)
These long commuter lines were the last converted to metal carriages in 87, before that it was served by the last batch of wooden carriages made in 57. The real graveyard of over-served old wood carriages were the reserve stand-ins and second class carriages in rural regional trains...
You can see also Sr1 EMUs, there were also about 100 of those, but they were used in two shorter railway branches and
