FRENCH STEAM LOCOMOTIVE VIRTUAL MUSEUM PICTURE GALLERY

Catalogue of featured engines. Text version.

PLEASE NOTE: I believe the scans are of the nice quality type... So be patient during photo loading, I hope you won't be disappointed.

Some readers asked me to give the detail of the various numbers carried by the introduced engines. This is already done in the tech. data pages, and will be added progressively to other pages.

For an overview of the various french numbering systems, please see this page

André Chapelon's machines

• P.O's 3700s pacifics:History - Technical data - Photos
   
• Derived of the above type, build for other companies: History - Technical data - Photos
   
• P.O.'s 4700s 4 8 0: History - Technical data - Photos
   
• S.N.C.F. evolution of the 4 8 0: 240 P series. History - Technical data - Photos
   
• "Partially enhanced" Chapelon P.O. Pacifics, 3800 - 4800 series (4 - 231 J S.N.C.F.) History - Technical data - Pictures
   
• The 160A1, 6 cylinders 2 12 0: History - Technical data - Pictures
   
• 3 - 2 4 2 A 1 S.N.C.F.'s 4 8 4 prototype: History - Technical data - Pictures
   
• 3 - 141 E 113, first single expansion Chapelon engine: History - Technical data - Pictures
   
• S.N.C.F. 5 - 140 J 153 single expansion, unbelievable last work of Chapelon for the S.N.C.F., the "biological" mother of "Red Devil". Technical data - Photos
   
• Single expansion 2 8 4 and 484 for Brazil: History - Technical data - Pictures

André Chapelon's planned machines

• 155 mph. ten wheels & all the others types:  Technical data - Drawings

Designs inspired by Chapelon's work

• Chemins de fer de l'état": Various most interesting types of pacifics:
  
  • PACIFIC "D"
  • PACIFIC "DD"

O.C.E.M. designs thermodynamically-corrected as much as it was possible by Chapelon

• S.N.C.F.'s 2 8 2, 141 P 1 to 318
• S.N.C.F.'s 4 8 2, 241 P 1 to 30

All Anatole Mallet...

• From his first two cylinders compound...
  
• To his world famous 4 cylinders compound articulated designs.

Gaston du Bousquet engines

• Gallery of his most remarkable engines. Although those were not themodynamics marvels they featured an increased L.P. engine efficiency and their architecture I'll detail elsewhere became what was called "Du Bousquet - De Glehn" or French type compound, used on all types of French compound before André Chapelon designs, and after by others designers.

Other historically significant French compound

• The 701 NORD, Alfred de Glehn's 4 cylinders 2-2-2-0, 1886, and others.

General French engines gallery

• "La compagnie du Nord"
  
  • 2 8 2 tank S.E. engine of 1932 (Compagnie du Nord) featuring a very efficient dynamic balancing system of valve gear, used later by Chapelon on the 160 A 1. Also used a unique distribution system called Cossart's pistons - valves system.
    
  • "SUPERPACIFICs", three quite different versions built from 1923 to 1931, total of 90 locomotives.
    
  • Other locomotives introduced now...
     
• "Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est"
  • 241 - 000, 4 8 2 of "La compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est", four cylinders compound, 1925-32. 241 001 was the first MOUNTAIN built in europe, delivered by Schneider on January 10, 1925.
     
• " Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans or P.O."
  • Pacifics 4500 series 4501- 4570 and 4571 - 4600, first PACIFIC serie in Europe, july1907.

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