Leave it to the French to do something like this!
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Brilliant idea! Very nice picture Mitch
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| Posted by rob216 on March 21, 2006 | |
That is rather diffrent for a display in a museum. But I like it.
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Better than the scrapper if they weren't going to restore it to operating condition. An interesting display and rare view of the underside of a steamer.
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Très belle photo Michel !!!!!
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There sure are a lot of moveable (?) bars on the underside. Were those there for moving the axles side to side on curves?
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Interesting shot. Too bad they didn't use a German "reparations" loco from the period after WW1 for this, instead of a genuinely French engine like a 140A. However...!
Wonder just how many American lives were saved on D-Day and later by the "Resistance-Fer" (the mostly left-wing railway workers who risked their lives to organize intelligence and sabotage networks to hinder the Germans)...? The leader of the "Resistance-Fer", mechanical engineer Louis Armand (inventor of the Armand integral water treatment system for steam locomotives), survived capture and torture by the Gestapo and the SS concentration camps to become the head of the SNCF after the war.
The bars on the bottom of the locomotive are the brake apparatus.
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I just wonder if some group will take this locomotive out and restore it. This does seem to be a little innapropriate for a steam engine.
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I for one think that this is a much better way to display the locomotive than a normal, upright static display. It shows off history, as well as the locomotive. Also, the locomotive doesn't seem to really be damaged, so what's the harm?
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