Iran has unveiled its first domestically-manufactured locomotive diesel engine with 4,000 horsepower, placing itself among the countries enjoying such high-level technology.

According to The Iran Project, the diesel engine, going by the name of MP610, was unveiled on Monday in an official ceremony attended by Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Abbas Aliabadi and the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, in Alborz Province, west of the capital Tehran.

Indigenized by Iranian experts and engineers, the 4,000 horsepower engine was designed and manufactured by the MAPNA Group, a leading holding company founded in 1993 with more than 70 subsidiaries that has established itself as Iran’s largest contractor of power plant projects and a key player in rail transportation and oil and gas projects within the country.