Electric locomotive BB # 7319 of the SNCF for 1500 V DC is ready for departure in Modane, border station to Italy on 1000 meter a.s.l. with the 4-car "Corail" push-pull train, as TER 883380 to Chambéry-Challes-les-Eaux. The locomotives BB 7200 were built by Alstom between 1976 and 1985 and were the last pure DC locomotives delivered to the SNCF; all later developments are multi-system locomotives. The locomotives have the typical front shape of French locomotives of the 1960s and 1970s by designer Paul Arzens, known as the “Nez cassé” (“broken nose”). It was first realized on the CC 40100 series locomotives and was also used on the sister locomotives of the BB 7200, the AC locomotives of the BB 15000 series and the dual-system locomotives of the BB 22200 series. From the locomotive with the road number 7236 onwards, the windshield was made less steep in favor of a more spacious driver's cab.
