The Nord consolidation locomotive 140 A 259 lying on its side depicting an act of sabotage by the French Resistance during WWII has already become the main image of the new Cité du Train. This is... (more)
The PO (Paris to Orleans Company) ZRI 1 snowplow is not self-propelled, and must be pushed by a locomotive to move forward, the steam from the boiler only being used to drive the turbine. The snow... (more)
Siemens Avanto "Tram-Train" vehicle U 25 # 542 of the SNCF is entering Mulhouse Gare station coming from Thann. On December 12, 2010, the Avanto officially went into service with the tra... (more)
"Cité du Train" railway museum in Mulhouse: Designated until 1962 as the 060 DB, the CC 65000 class of the French state railroad SNCF was a six-axle, twin-engine diesel-electric locomot... (more)
"Cité du Train" railway museum in Mulhouse: 2-8-0 "Consolidation" steamlocomotive 140 # 344 of the ETAT (Chemins de fer de l'État), later SNCF, built in 1917 by the North Bri... (more)
"Cité du Train" railway museum in Mulhouse: 2-4-2 steamlocomotive 121 A # 340 of the Paris-Orléans Railway (PO), type Forquenot, built by Sharp, Stewart & Co Limited (Atlas Works) in M... (more)
"Cité du Train" railway museum in Mulhouse: SNCF's CC 7100 class are part of a series of electric locomotives built by Alsthom. The prototype 'CC 7000' (7001 & 7002) were built in 1949 ... (more)
Diesel locotracteur type Crochat built in 1916 and used by the ALVF (Artillerie Lourde sur Voie Ferrée/heavy railway artillery) during WW I. On the left passenger car B8 py # 135, Compagnie des C... (more)
Operational power car TBD # 2057 of a gasturbine powered train of the SNCF in the "Cité du Train" railway museum in Mulhouse. The RTG (Rame à Turbine à Gaz) class of the French state ... (more)
The 4-8-2 class 241 P vehicles of the French state railroad Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) were the last Mountain locomotives (wheel arrangement 2'D1', French 241) built i... (more)
Electrolocomotive BB # 9291 of the SNCF in the Cité du Train railway museum Mulhouse. The BB 9200 is a French electric locomotive series for use on the SNCF's 1.5 kV DC network. The locomotives w... (more)
4-6-2 "Chapelon Pacific" 3.# 1192 of the Nord (Compagnie des Chemins de fer du Nord), built 1936 by Blanc-Misseron. At the end of the 1920s, engineer André Chapelon began optimizing ste... (more)
Power car # 325 of the TGV-Atlantique, which set a world record for rail vehicles that had long been unsurpassed: 515.3 kilometers per hour on may 18, 1990, between Courtalain and Tours. The TGV-A... (more)
Mulhouse "Cité du Train" railway museum: 4-6-0 "Tenwheeler" fourcylinder compound express train steamlocomotive # 1314 of the MIDI (Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi), buil... (more)