MPTG-2 is a heavy type modular vehicle with long (18,500 mm) frame. At its rear end there is a 28.8 tm articulated crane mounted. The vehicle was designed to perform the following operations:

• Cargo handling, transportation of various cargoes on its own frame deck;

• Transportation of loads on coupled wagons;

• Transportation of long cargoes including 25-meter long rails on its own deck or on coupled trailers;

• Delivery of workers to site;

• Shunting at station yards;

• Power supply to welding equipment at work site;

• Snow removal;

• Power supply to electrical equipment working at 380/220V, 50Hz.;

• Supply compressed air pressure to tools and equipment (8 atm.);

• Perform duties of the leading vehicle when in track maintenance train formation.

MPTG-2  railway vehicle is equipped with the innovational fully asynchronous electric drive system consisting of an asynchronous alternator and asynchronous traction motors which provides:

• 10-30% less fuel consumption;
• 10% less operating costs (no need for expencive hydraulic oils and filters);
• electric motors have longer service life and are more reliable than the traditionaly used hydro-mechanical or hydro-static drives;
• smoothly gains speed (no gears = no steps and jerks);
• Diesel engine serves longer because it has no direct (hard) connection to the drive system and thus has no impacts from it.
• Performance ratio is 15% higher because we use the vector drive control system.