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The Nord-Est engine regains some colour!

Éric Fresné: Patrick, restoring historic items is beginning to appear in the field of railway preservation. How do you see it?

Railway restoration remains apart in the world of vintage objects, and it isn’t very well handled. When it comes to mechanical engineering, each country, each manufacturer had its own approach and techniques. Therefore, restoring consists in understanding such methods and becoming immersed in them, to be able to reproduce them. This locomotive “DNA” is also found on the original drawings, when they exist. Without such a perception, difficulties are encountered when

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