Class 1-80 (BB-42 and 32, ex-PO) of SNCF.
Both had been fitted with shoes and re-formed into a permanent dual-unit in 1961/1962, so as to haul freighters on Chambéry-Modane, where 1.5kV DC was supplied through live-rail from 1925 until 1976.
Photo by Georges Grenier (Acknowledgements)
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