One of about 200 identical 300hp railcars designed and built from the late 1940's for the SNCF, chiefly for service on secondary and tertiary routes. The use of the elevated cupola for the driver was part of a French design tradition which began in the early 1930's with Bugatti and Renault railcars. Powered by a Renault 517G V12 diesel, an engine developed before the war specifically for railcar use and one which had a very significant descendance in the later MGO (825hp V12) and AGO (3660hp V16) engines built by SACM-Alsthom for locomotive use.
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