Frankreich : Nationale Gesellschaft der Französischen Eisenbahn - France, SNCF ; tourist guide in German, 1957 : Das arbeitende Frankreich
A wonderfully produced guide to SNCF services, in German, and issued in 1957. It was produced for the Fremch Railways by Editions Perceval and contains numerous colour and line illustrations by several artists and designers including G Barret, Brihat, Doisneau-Rapho, Fénino, Mazda, René Jacques, Schall and Yan-Rapho. They are wonderfully colourful and very contemporary in style, echoing much of SNCF's publicity and posters of this time. They cover tourist destinations by train and caoch services, SNCF's services and even a mention of French industry & freight services.
One page is given over to "Das arbeitende Frankreich" - "Working France" that has this annoyingly unattributed illustration of one of the SNCF's 25 kV AC locomotives of classes CC 14000/CC 14100, used mainly for iron ore trains on the Valenciennes - Thionville line and known as 'flatirons' or 'crocodiles'. It is hauling a freight train against a background of a blast furnace, indicative of the French metallurgy industry discussed in the text. The CC14100 class was built and introduced between 1954 and 1958 so being suitably 'modern' for this guide.
Frankreich : Nationale Gesellschaft der Französischen Eisenbahn - France, SNCF ; tourist guide in German, 1957 : Das arbeitende Frankreich
A wonderfully produced guide to SNCF services, in German, and issued in 1957. It was produced for the Fremch Railways by Editions Perceval and contains numerous colour and line illustrations by several artists and designers including G Barret, Brihat, Doisneau-Rapho, Fénino, Mazda, René Jacques, Schall and Yan-Rapho. They are wonderfully colourful and very contemporary in style, echoing much of SNCF's publicity and posters of this time. They cover tourist destinations by train and caoch services, SNCF's services and even a mention of French industry & freight services.
One page is given over to "Das arbeitende Frankreich" - "Working France" that has this annoyingly unattributed illustration of one of the SNCF's 25 kV AC locomotives of classes CC 14000/CC 14100, used mainly for iron ore trains on the Valenciennes - Thionville line and known as 'flatirons' or 'crocodiles'. It is hauling a freight train against a background of a blast furnace, indicative of the French metallurgy industry discussed in the text. The CC14100 class was built and introduced between 1954 and 1958 so being suitably 'modern' for this guide.