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Hi, The BB 63000 series diesel locomotives are famous in France. They have existed since 1953 and more than 800 have been constructed. More than 600 are still in use. These locomotives have four liveries : the older one is called "green livery" (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.inst, lugnet.trains)
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Hi Didier, It's pretty cool. Seen the FRET-version before and I wonder why it has a bike on board? (URL) Are the French drivers too lazy to walk to the front? ;-) Thanks for sharing, Jeroen "Didier Enjary" <d.enjary@wanadoo.fr> schreef in bericht (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Please, Jeroen, don't tell'em they're lazy :-) More seriously, as you have maybe guess, these locomotives are only intended with local operations. The bikes allow drivers to rapidly move around on the railyards. Pascal will take some photos, I (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) [snip] (...) Hey! Cool engine. I am intrigued by the trucks (bogies). Are those skirts around the trucks or are they some other kind of stucture? Thanks for sharing, Chris (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm pretty sure that the panels Pascal put both sides of the bogies are just to make the trucks look good in 8-studs size. (URL) there are no skirts or specific structure in the real engine. In my previous post, I wrote : "The motor is the 12V (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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