Buy La saga des Nez cassés - Tome 2, Les séries des BBB et CC - LA VIE DU RAIL

Delivered between the mid-1960s and the late 1990s, the broken nose family includes more than a thousand engines. Having circulated in France but also abroad, we decided to travel through their various stories and adventures, taking back all the copies that have been produced. With a particular silhouette by their inverted windshields, they were symbols of speed reinforced by the "Z" shape of their noses...

Broken, the latter being initially willing not to dazzle the driving agents. Having known more than successful careers for the most part, these locomotives are now for the vast majority close to their twilight. This book is a tribute to these beautiful bikes with atypical and unique shapes, which we will revisit through two volumes. The first volume traces the BB type series of broken noses, and the second will make the declination of the BBB and CC type series.

We will detail each series by tracing their careers through tables showing their different liveries, their assignment deposits, and for some their different owners or their particularities. A geographical map will highlight the different lines that each series has traveled during its career. This book will allow us to discover the career of the powerful CC 6500, which with 74 copies, were the flagship of the SNCF in the early 70s, excelling in the traction of the famous TEE Mistral, Capitole, Aquitaine, while highlighting all their power in the steep slopes of La Maurienne, in the traction of heavy freight trains.

We will continue in Slovenia, discovering the 39 "Brizita" SZ 363, very close cousins of the CC 6500, then the Moroccan E900, whose unfortunate ephemeral career we will see on the other side of the Mediterranean. We will then discover the 94 BBB 8000 copies in South Korea, the binoculars of the CC6500, the elegant CC 21000, which excelled in the traction of the CISalpin Paris - Vallorbe TEE, and then the CC 21003 which lived the American dream, under the Amtrak colors by being punctually renumbered X996.

We will then return to northern Europe, examining the grandmothers of the broken nose family that appeared in the mid-1960s, the CC 40100. The latter will have experienced the traction of international trains between France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Then, we will explore the SNCF's most powerful diesel-electric locomotives, the seductive CC 72000 that see the superb Jules Verne TEE in the West and the mythical Arbalète in the East.

In the early 2000s, they will give rise to a "green" version, the CC 72100, and from 2009 six copies will leave the hexagon to cross the Mediterranean and join their 14 Moroccan cousins, the DF100, which we will also look at. Afterwards, we will go to Portugal, to discover the successful career of the 1900 series to the freight service, and the 1930 series to the passenger service, following the adventure of some 1930 series that will join Argentina in the early 2000s.

Delivered between the mid-1960s and the late 1990s, the broken nose family includes more than a thousand engines. Having circulated in France but also abroad, we decided to travel through their various stories and adventures, taking back all the copies that have been produced. With a particular silhouette by their inverted windshields, they were symbols of speed reinforced by the "Z" shape of their noses...

Broken, the latter being initially willing not to dazzle the driving agents. Having known more than successful careers for the most part, these locomotives are now for the vast majority close to their twilight. This book is a tribute to these beautiful bikes with atypical and unique shapes, which we will revisit through two volumes. The first volume traces the BB type series of broken noses, and the second will make the declination of the BBB and CC type series.

We will detail each series by tracing their careers through tables showing their different liveries, their assignment deposits, and for some their different owners or their particularities. A geographical map will highlight the different lines that each series has traveled during its career. This book will allow us to discover the career of the powerful CC 6500, which with 74 copies, were the flagship of the SNCF in the early 70s, excelling in the traction of the famous TEE Mistral, Capitole, Aquitaine, while highlighting all their power in the steep slopes of La Maurienne, in the traction of heavy freight trains.

We will continue in Slovenia, discovering the 39 "Brizita" SZ 363, very close cousins of the CC 6500, then the Moroccan E900, whose unfortunate ephemeral career we will see on the other side of the Mediterranean. We will then discover the 94 BBB 8000 copies in South Korea, the binoculars of the CC6500, the elegant CC 21000, which excelled in the traction of the CISalpin Paris - Vallorbe TEE, and then the CC 21003 which lived the American dream, under the Amtrak colors by being punctually renumbered X996.

We will then return to northern Europe, examining the grandmothers of the broken nose family that appeared in the mid-1960s, the CC 40100. The latter will have experienced the traction of international trains between France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Then, we will explore the SNCF's most powerful diesel-electric locomotives, the seductive CC 72000 that see the superb Jules Verne TEE in the West and the mythical Arbalète in the East.

In the early 2000s, they will give rise to a "green" version, the CC 72100, and from 2009 six copies will leave the hexagon to cross the Mediterranean and join their 14 Moroccan cousins, the DF100, which we will also look at. Afterwards, we will go to Portugal, to discover the successful career of the 1900 series to the freight service, and the 1930 series to the passenger service, following the adventure of some 1930 series that will join Argentina in the early 2000s.

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