Much of the private operators' rail traffic in Estonia has to do with transporting Russian crude oil through Estonia to the Baltic sea ports, for example Muuga near Tallinn or Sillamäe further east. This locomotive is a class 2TE116 owned by the company AS E.R.S or Estonian Railway Services. The company specialises in oil transport. Picture at Tartu station 24.9.2008 by Ilkka Siissalo.

Another 2TE116 of the company E.R.S. near the oil harbour of Muuga. Picture at Muuga 8.9.2010 by Ilkka Siissalo.

Another 2TE116 but this time owned by Sillamäe Sadam, the harbour company of city of Sillamäe. Picture in Tartu 7.12.2007 by Ilkka Siissalo.

Yet another 2TE116, owned by the company Spacecom, which also is a big player in the Russia-Estonia oil transport business. Picture in Tartu 7.12.2007 by Ilkka Siissalo.

Yet another 2TE116 with a 48 wagon oil train, but this time owned by the company Transoil. Picture in Rakvere 6.12.2007 by Ilkka Siissalo.

The same 2TE116 as above, seen from its side. Picture in Rakvere 6.12.2007 by Ilkka Siissalo.

The same oil train as in the two pictures above, but now at the Estonian - Russian border station of Narva. The red Transoil 2TE116 is standing aside at the left and the train has now been taken over by a similar but green 2TE116 of the Russian state railways RZD. In the background a class ChEM3 shunter of Eesti Raudtee. Picture in Narva 6.12.2007 by Ilkka Siissalo.