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Preserved equipment

The SGLM hosts some historical pieces of equipment coming from others railways: these cars and engines are not in working conditions. They are items saved for a future museum. Most of them came from the "St Gervais - Vallorcine" railways (France). This old single line was constructed by the PLM Company (Paris - Lyon - Méditerranée), and is now included in the SNCF network.

This railway is of total adherence type, in spite of a quite-permanent gradient of 9%. Built between 1899 and 1909, this line connects Le Fayet (St Gervais - France) to Vallorcine (Swiss customs), going through Chamonix. Feeded by a third-rail live line, all motor trucks were two-axles.

The SGLM received successively :

• the motor-driven van with driver's cab Z-216,
  
• the passengers cars ZS 10003 and ZS 10004,
  
• the gondola with driver's cab ZS 10212,
  
• the rotary snow-plough Z-450.

This latter is remarkable : with a two-axles underframe, he was delivered in 1922. Of a lenght of 8 m, and a weight of 33 T, its turbine has a diameter of 2.42 m, and is equipped with 10 snow-cutting blades. An electrical motor of 350 HP drives the turbine.

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