This pictorial encyclopaedia will in several parts, published annually, cover all the circa 160 motive power types delivered to the French national railways since its formation in 1938. Each type is allowed 2-8 pages with brief technical and operational history, numerical list with date of delivery and withdrawal, total km run, line drawing and several photographs (in colour where available). Certain classes have been covered in greater detail in the Le Train Special series.
Tome 7. Locomotives, locomoteurs et locotracteurs Diesel (2e partie). Part 7 covers diesel locomotives from the BB66000 of 1961 till the present day. There was a gap of 32 years between BB67400 and the new BB475000. 100 pages A4, 194 ill, sb.