To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the hugely successful Unimog, Mercedes-Benz has not only shown a concept truck that's garnered plenty of headlines, but they've also released a small batch of Unimog photos from the company's archives. Recall that Unimog is a contraction of the truck's full name, Universal Motor Gerät, and the photos do an excellent job of portraying the 'Mog in a variety of configurations, from fire trucks and hay rakes to the locomotive seen above.

The Mog in the photo is the U406 for road-rail operations; product range 406 was manufactured from 1963-1989. This product range with its much more powerful engines opened up whole new vistas of Unimog operations, such as being used as a very versatile road-rail vehicle.

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