FRENCH COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVES' HOMEPAGE

 


Mallet's 2 cylinders compound

Everyone might know that the first compound locomotive built in the world was this small two cylinders machine named "Anglet", built for the Chemin de Fer de Bayonne à Biarritz in 1876.

It was so efficient and economical that


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