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Railway Museum in Mürzzuschlag, Austria. Locomotive SBB BE 6/8 II 13257 (SLM 2677/1919). Photo by Marko Djukic (markorail@yahoo.co.uk)

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SBB CFF FFS Be 6/8II 13257, built 1920 by MFO/SLM as Ce 6/8II 14257. 1947 modernized and renumbered. In service until 1978, then given to the Austrian railway museum in exchange to the ÖBB 1089.06, which went to the transport museum Luzern. During some time it carried the fictitious Austrian number "1189.10". It was based in Attnang-Puchheim, then exhibited in Wien in 1987 and shown in Budapest in 1996. In 1998 it went to Strasshof, in 2008 to Mürzzuschlag. Südbahnmuseum Mürzzuschlag, 2019-06-10. tobias b köhler

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SBB CFF FFS Be 6/8II 13257 "Crocodile". Südbahnmuseum Mürzzuschlag, 2019-06-10. tobias b köhler

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SBB CFF FFS Be 6/8II 13257 "Crocodile". Südbahnmuseum Mürzzuschlag, 2019-06-10. tobias b köhler

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Swiss "Crocodile" electric locomotive, but changed to look like the Austrian version. Picture taken during the big locomotive show for the 150th anniversary of the Hungarian railways on 13-14 July 1996 in Budapest. Photo by Janos Ero <Janos.Ero@cern.ch> Scan by Marco van Uden <m.van.uden@worldonline.nl>

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SBB CFF FFS Be 6/8 II 13254. A crocodile of the first series in the state of the 1950s. Verkehrshaus Luzern, 2003-02-11. Photo: tobias b köhler

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SBB CFF FFS Be 6/8 II 13257 in the "Heizhaus Strasshof". Built 1920, (1'C')(C1')', 75 km/h, 2688 kW, 186 t. This is the older version of the Crocodile with rotating counterweights. 2002-04-07. tbk

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Krokodil Be6/8II Nr. 13254 of the SBB at the exhibition hall of the Schweizerisches Verkehrshaus in Lucerne Date: August 7th, 2001 Photo Othmar Marti (Othmar_Marti@web.de)

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Luzern. Swiss Museum of Transport, rail section. Photo by Emanuele Rava, 01-04-2010 e-mail emanrava@yahoo.it

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Luzern. Swiss Museum of Transport, rail section. Photo by Emanuele Rava, 01-04-2010 e-mail emanrava@yahoo.it

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Luzern. Swiss Museum of Transport, rail section. Photo by Emanuele Rava, 01-04-2010 e-mail emanrava@yahoo.it

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Luzern. Swiss Museum of Transport, rail section. Photo by Emanuele Rava, 01-04-2010 e-mail emanrava@yahoo.it

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SBB Be 6/8II 13254 im Verkehrshaus Luzern. ca. 1987. Photo by M.Koblischka

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SBB Krokodil Be6/8 II No.13254, Swiss Transport Museum, Luzern. March, 1998. Photo by: John M. Lovda, jlovda@attglobal.net

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A Crocodile of the first series, type Be 6/8 II (1'C)(C1') in green livery of the fifties, exhibited in the Verkehrshaus Luzern. For their time these were very powerful engines, they still belong to the most famous classes ever. Photo: Tobias Köhler (unci@tigerden.com) Scan: Jürgen Gittinger (gitting@ira.uka.de)

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Two crocodiles of different track gauges: RhB Ge 6/6 I 402 (1000 mm gauge, C'C') and SBB CFF FFS Be 6/8 II 13254 (1435 mm gauge, (1'C)(C1')). Luzern (Verkehrshaus), 2003-02-11 Photo: Reinhard Greulich

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Two crocodiles of different track gauges: RhB Ge 6/6 I 402 (1000 mm gauge, C'C') and SBB CFF FFS Be 6/8 II 13254 (1435 mm gauge, (1'C)(C1')). Luzern (Verkehrshaus), 2003-02-11 Photo: Ralf Gunkel