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GV Locomotive leaving shed.
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LV Locomotive moving away from camera.
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SV INT...Driver at controls.
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CU Controls.
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TRAVEL SHOT..Approaching iron-ore wagons in shunting yard.
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SV Locomotive coupled to iron-ore wagon.
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CU Driver PAN to controls.
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LV Line of iron-ore wagons moving out from shunting yard.
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GV PAN..Ditto, long line of wagons hauled by locomotive.
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Background: Reported to be the biggest and most powerful railway locomotive in the world, the "D-m-3" has gone into service pulling iron-ore wagons from Kiruna in Swedish Lappland to Narvik, Norway.

Built by ASEA (Sweden) in co-operation with Swedish State Railways, the 65-tons "D-m-3" is in three sections, totalling 35-metres in length. Its five engines - each as strong as one normal locomotive - develop a pulling power of 80,000 kgms against the 65,000 kgms of the previous strongest locomotive owned by Swiss State Railways.

Fully loaded the "D-m-3" pulls 65-ore wagons - a train of 438 metres in length, and weighing more than 5,135-tons.