FRENCH COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVES' HOMEPAGE


Chapelon's S.N.C.F. 5 - 140J series (exact production run unknown); 1953. Ex-P.L.M. 140Js
 

Photo showing the "natural" propensity of the chassis of these locomotives to distortions - a phenomenon common to almost ALL the locomotives of the P.L.M. After strengthening
140 J 148, one of the few units modified in the same way that the prototype J 153.

 
 


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