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
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me to resample the images to a lower resolution...
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
André Chapelon's planned machines
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155 mph. ten wheels & all the others types:
Technical data -
Drawings
Designs inspired by Chapelon's work
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Chemins de fer de l'état": Various most interesting
types of pacifics:
O.C.E.M. designs thermodynamically-corrected
as much as it was possible by Chapelon
All Anatole Mallet...
Gaston du Bousquet engines
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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
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The 701 NORD, Alfred
de Glehn's 4 cylinders 2-2-2-0, 1886, and others.
General French engines
gallery
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"La compagnie du Nord"
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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.
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"SUPERPACIFICs",
three quite different versions built from 1923 to 1931, total of 90 locomotives.
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"Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est"
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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.
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" Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans
or P.O."
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