Builder: Ralph Savelsberg
Region: Europe & Middle East
Category entered:
Year entered: 2022
Brand of building bricks used:
LEGO
Since 2026, the Brick Train Awards have accepted models created with other LEGO®-compatible construction brick systems.
About North Korean M62 locomotive by Ralph Savelsberg
This model represents a North Korean M62. The M62 was a diesel-elecric locomotive built in the Soviet Union and widely exported to Soviet client states in Eastern Europe, but also to North Korea, where they still serve with North Korean state railway. The model includes an interior, including the Kolomna 14D40 V12 diesel engine, and has working doors. Despite its length, of about 50 studs, it can navigate turns to to the central axle on the two bogies being built such that it can move sideways.