The CC 6572 presents itself at the museum Cité du Train in Mulhouse as fresh from the factory. But this locomotive has its characteristic: It is not the CC 6572, it carry only its number signs and the name "Résistance Fer". It is the original CC 6565. In general, the SCNF locomotives were baptized exclusively after the names of cities. Not so the CC 6572, which was baptized "Résistance Fer" in memory of the organized resistance of railroadmen against the German occupation during the second world war. After the original was scrapped, the actual CC 6565 inherit the number signs and the name of CC 6572, in order to have again a locomotive with this name for ceremonies. During their setting into service 1969, the CC 6500 were certified the highest performance locomotives of the SNCF with a maximum speed of 200 km/h. They carry the unmistakable design of the so-called "nez cassé" (broken nose) of the designer Paul Arzens. June 19th. 2010.

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