SNCF Class CC 72100

History, description and use

The CC 72100 is a series of six-axle diesel-electric locomotives of the French railway company SNCF. It is a created by Converted repowering in the years 2002-2004 subseries of 30 vehicles built 1968-1974 CC 72000th All machines are stationed in Chalindrey (STF Champagne -Ardenne ) and bear the livery En voyage.

The only diesel SNCF CC 72000 CC and 72100 have the first electric locomotives in the CC series 40100 used, and typical of the 1960s and 70s design, the so-called nez casse ( broken nose ) of the Parisian designer Paul Arzens.

The rebuilt locomotives were given as the third digit is a 1 in the same order number, as was, for example, from the 72021 the 72121st These are the order numbers 21, 30, 37 to 41, 43, 45, 47, 48, 51, 56 to 58, 60, 63, 66, 68, 72, 75 and 80, 82, 86, 89 and 90

On 15 December 2012, there were still 22 locomotives of this series in use. They are on the line Paris -Mulhouse and 4 between Reims and Dijon ( TER Champagne- Ardenne ) used in passenger trains.

Others

Three machines of the CC series 72000 (72061, 72062 and 72064 ) received in 1999 Scharfenberg couplers to pull TGV between Nantes and Les Sables d' Olonne, and the car numbers 72101-72103. In 2003 were dismantled these locomotives back and numbered.