Product Description
Diesel locomotive 68050 of the French State Railways.
Update!
■ For the first time with PluX22 interface and LED lighting
■ Original version with raised decorative lines and numbers
■ Finely detailed ventilation grilles
■ 2-light headlights
Between 1963 and 1968, 80 locomotives of the A1A-A1A 68000 series were built for heavy duty on the French state railways (SNCF ) built. They had much in common with the lighter BB 67000 delivered at the same time, but due to the use of a more powerful, heavier Sulzer LVA 24 diesel engine and its larger generator, the bogies were designed with three axles to operate on some routes of the ex-Etat and PO-Midi -To be able to drive lines with less axle load. Its quite unusual axle configuration consists of two bogies, from which only the outer axles are powered. A boiler and water tanks for steam heating of the passenger trains were also fitted, with the additional load enabled by the two non-powered axles.
The six-axle, diesel-electric locomotive had an operating weight of 106 tons. With its 12-cylinder diesel engine with an output of 1,985 kW and an output at the wheel flange of 1,660 kW, it reached a top speed of 130 km/h.
In their original version, the locomotives had a unique design with arrows and applied trim, designed by the famous railway designer Paul Arzens, which made them distinctive. They were used in heavy passenger and freight transport. Their use in western, northern, eastern and central France also took the locomotives to the stations of Bantzenheim on the German and Delle on the Swiss border, as well as to Basel in Switzerland.
