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Move 21, a railway engine for narrow 750 mm gauge, 76 units produced, 66 units delivered to the Soviet Union. Valmet sold the remaining 10 units to
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had a project for its restoration, but the work did not start. The schooner was not well protected and its condition started to worsen. The Finns planned to save the
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railway border station. Approximately 340,000 railroad carloads were needed to deliver all reparations.
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