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Poster of the museum. The Cité du Train (English: City of the Train or Train City), situated in Mulhouse, France, is one of the ten largest railway museums in the world.It is the successor to the Musée Français du Chemin de Fer (French National Railway Museum), the organisation responsible for the conservation of major historical SNCF railway equipment.
Sectioned for Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne, Paris 1937; static display, Cité du train, Mulhouse [36] 4.319 4.061–4.340
The Nord needed more powerful locomotives to haul with increasingly heavier passenger train loads. The company's existing 4-4-2 (Atlantic) type – the 2.641 to 2.675 series (later SNCF 2-221.A) – could no longer cope; and so in 1909 the Nord's chief mechanical engineer Gaston Du Bousquet produced a design for a locomotive that had six driving wheels with four-wheel leading and trailing bogies.
Cité du train, Mulhouse, (not exposed). 4407: 4403–4512: 11S: 1-141.TB.407: ... Restored by AAATV; on loan to La Vapeur du Trieux. Monument Historique PM68000588 ...
BB 9003 was built and delivered in 1952 and was the first French locomotive to be remote-controlled from the exterior of its train. [clarification needed] BB 9004 was built and delivered in 1954 and later set a rail speed record of 331 km/h (206 mph) on 29 March 1955 on the Landes line between Facture and Morcenx, France, [1] a day after SNCF 7107 did not exceed the actual speed of 325 km/h ...
Cité de l'Automobile; H. Hartmannswillerkopf; M. ... Musée historique de Mulhouse; Cité du Train This page was last edited on 18 December 2020, at 02:12 (UTC). ...
241.P.16, withdrawn in 1973, is on display at the Cité du train (National Railway Museum of France) in Mulhouse 241.P.17, preserved at Le Creusot and restored to working operation in April 2006, is authorised to run on SNCF tracks with passengers, after a 13-year restoration project and since then travel across France and sometimes Switzerland ...
140.C.314 (NBL 21651 of 1917) owned by the Chemin de fer touristique du Vermandois (CFVT) and is used on its line. 140.C.344 (NBL 21581 of 1917) is part of Cité du train, Mulhouse; Only one Vulcan-built 140.C was saved (all Nasmyth, Wilson & Co. engines were scrapped) and none of the prewar engines (built in France) survived into preservation.