Diesel Locomotive CC 72000 SNCF Plastic Frame - Les Trains Jouef

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• Diesel electric locomotive CC 72000 SNCF, registered numbers from CC 72001 to CC 72092 SNCF
• delivery date: from 1967 to 1974
• Diesel engine SACM AGO V16 ESHR which drives one alternator and power feeds for two traction electric engines
• range: 1500 km
• fuel capacity: 5500 liters
• power: 2250 kW
• speed limit: slow speed (PV) for freigt trains and fast speed (GV) for passenger trains
• PV 85 km/h and GV 140 km/h for CC 72001 to CC 72020 from factory
• PV 85 km/h and GV 160 km/h for CC 72021 to CC 72092, and CC 72017 after retrofit
• weight
• 112 tonnes for CC 72001 to CC 72020
• 114 tonnes for CC 72021 to CC 72092
• length: 20,19 meters
• service : long distance passenger and freight trains on non electrified main SNCF lines including Paris-Mulhouse-Basel, cross-country lines Valence - Grenoble - Chambéry, Bordeaux - Lyon and Nantes - Lyon
• outset livery named Arzens with blue and white colors
• only the CC 72006 received the blue Multiservice livery in October 1995
• 2 others locomotives (CC 72030 and 72040) received the red Multiservice livery in July 1996 and April 1997
• 3 locomotives (CC 72061, 72062 and 72064) modified (automatic Scharfenberg couplings and TGV A power feeds) in 1999 for TGV Vendée traction between Nantes and Les Sables d'Olonne
• locomotive fleets shared between activities (Grandes lignes, Fret, Ile-de-France, Direction du Transport Public and Local, and Infrastructure) in end of year 1998, and consequently
• Fret activity's decision in begin of year 2000 to have a specific livery based on green, white and grey colors for its locomotives
• Grandes Lignes activity choose the Corail+ livery (near the red Multiservice livery) in June 2000
• 33 locomotives (CC 72001 to 72010, 72012 to 72016, 72018 to 72020, 72022, 72024, 72026, 72027, 72029, 72031 to 72036, 72067, 72069, 72083 and 72085) received the Fret livery between 2000 and 2002
• 3 additional locomotives (CC 72037, 72068, 72078) received the Corail+ livery in 2001
• adoption of the new En Voyage livery by the different passenger activities from 2002
• new engine (Diesel engine 16 PA 4 200 VGA de la SEMT/PIELSTICK of 2650 kW) fitted between 2002 and 2004, for 30 locomotives (CC 72021, 72030, 72037, 72038, 72039, 72040, 72041, 72043, 72045, 72047, 72048, 72051, 72056, 72057, 72058, 72060, 72063, 72066, 72068, 72072, 72075, 72076, 72077, 72078, 72079, 72080, 72082, 72086, 72089 and 72090) used on Paris-Mulhouse and Reims-Dijon lines, with the new En Voyage livery and renumbered in CC 72100 series
• the CC 72045 ran in uniform grey livery (ghost livery) from July 2002 to July 2003 before new engine fitting out
• the CC 72148 ran in uniform grey livery (ghost livery) from August 2002 to October 2002 before receiving the En Voyage livery in October 2002
• the CC 72060 ran in uniform grey livery (ghost livery) from October 2002 to February 2003, then ran in En voyage livery from February 2003 to March 2004 before new engine fitting out
• the CC 72058 ran in En voyage livery before new engine fitting out
• 6 locomotives Fret (CC 72003, 72009, 72018, 72020, 72027 and 72085) sold in 2007 to the Moroccan railways compagny (ONCF)
• withdrawn from service for the CC 72000 without new Diesel engine between 2005 and 2011
• last commercial passenger train between Culmont-Chalindrey and Paris-Est on August 28ᵗʰ 2017 by the CC 72186
• still remaining 3 locomotives (the CC 72049 and 72074 in En voyage livery, and the CC 72084 in Arzens blue livery) allocated to AEF (Agence d'Essais Ferroviaire) for trials and special transport in all the country
• the CC 72064 in Arzens blue livery withdrawn from service in October 23ᵗʰ is saveguarded by ARCET (Association Rhône alpine de Conservations d'Engins Thermiques)
• the CC 72130 in En voyage livery withdrawn from service in December 30