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Billard
Établissements Billard was a French railway rolling stock construction company founded in 1920 and based in Tours. It specialised in light railbuses and metre gauge and narrow gauge rolling stock. The business ceased trading in 1956 and later became Socofer. Production Draisines * Draisines : These worked on different VFILs, and for the "Big Companies" which became the SNCF. Locomotives * T50 * T75D * T75P * T75G These were designed for the French Military Railway. They were used, among other things, to service the Maginot Line. * SNCF Class Y 7100 Railbuses Railbuses for numerous French VFIPs (secondary railways) * Type A 80D, * Type A 135D, * Type A 150D, * Type A 210D, * Networks of the Compagnie des chemins de fer départementaux, including: ** Corse, ** Vivarais, ** Indre et Loire, ** Seine-et-Marne * Tramways d'Ille-et-Vilaine Company * Overseas networks: ** Madagascar ** Réunion * French West Africa: ** Dakar Niger ** Dahomey * Ethiopia: ** Chemin de fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobbi Billard
Barbara "Bobbi" Anne Billard (born December 12, 1975) is an American model, actress, published author and former professional wrestler. Career Acting career Billard's first commercial, "Green Bay Watch", was for Diet Dr Pepper and was shown during Super Bowl XXXV. She had a few small parts on TV shows like Howard Stern's ''Son of the Beach'' and then in cinema. Modeling career Billard began modeling at the age of 12. Her first paid modeling job was at the age of 19 for Jones Performance Fuel Systems. From there, she was on the cover of ''Mini-truckin' ''magazine, as well as appearing in calendars for ''Hot Bike'' and ''Street Rodder''. On the MySpace social network, she had over one and a half million "friends", making her one of the most popular people on the site. She has appeared in ''Muscular Development'', ''Muscle Mag'' and ''American Curves'', as well as in two series of Benchwarmer trading cards. She made music video appearances in Blues Traveler's "Girl Inside My ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chemins De Fer De Corse
Chemins de fer de la Corse ( co, Camini di Ferru di a Corsica) (CFC) is the name of the regional rail network serving the French island of Corsica. It is centred on the town of Ponte Leccia, from which three main lines radiate to Ajaccio, Bastia, and Calvi. The section following the northwest coastline between L'Île-Rousse and Calvi, known as the Balagne line, gives access to many beaches and is very popular with tourists. A fourth line, running from Casamozza (on the Bastia line) down the east coast of the island to Porto-Vecchio was badly damaged by bombardment during World War II and never reopened. History In 1877 it was decided to build a metre-gauge railway in Corsica, despite the very difficult terrain it would have to cross. Legislation was passed on 4 August 1879 for the construction of the railway. The first lines opened on 1 August 1888 between Bastia and Corte and also between Ajaccio and Bocognano. The network was gradually opened in sections until 1894. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billiard (other)
Billiard or billiards may refer to: Games * A , a type of shot in cue sports ''(see below)'' * Billiards: cue sports in general; the term "billiards" by itself is also sometimes used to refer to any of the following more specifically: ** Carom billiards (also known as French billiards), games in general (a chiefly non-British usage) ** Three-cushion billiards, even more specifically, the most popular form of carom billiards worldwide ** The specific game of English billiards (a chiefly British, Irish and Australian usage) ** Pool (cue sports) (pocket billiards) games, such as eight-ball and nine-ball, in general (a chiefly colloquial North American usage) * See the list of cue sports for various other games with "billiards" in their names; also more specifically: ** Pin billiards, a fairly large number of billiard games that use a pin, or a set of "pins", or "skittles" ** Bar billiards, a game combining elements of bagatelle and English billiards * Electric billiards, an obsolete t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socofer
Socofer is the name for the railway construction company that before 1968 was known as Établissements Billard. Production * narrow gauge locomotives for: ** The French Army (type SCF 303) ** Leisure parks. ** Tourist railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...s. * Narrow gauge carriages for touristic railways. Preserved rolling stock * Two narrow gauge locomotives, built 1968, ex French Army, at APPEVA (T28 et T29). * Two narrow gauge locomotives, built 1981, ex Chemin de fer des Chanteraines. * A narrow gauge locomotive, built 1981, at the leisure park of Port aux Cerises. * A narrow gauge locomotive, built 2000, on the Chemin de fer du Creusot. * Two carriages, on the Chemin de fer des Chanteraines and the leasure resort of Port aux Cerises. * A type T7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SNCF Class Y 7100
The Y 7100 class of small shunters originally had 210 members. The first 130 were built by Billard, with the remaining 80 by Decauville. They have the 0-4-0 ("B") wheel arrangement, 150 kW diesel engine The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-call ...s and hydraulic transmission. They can be found all over the French network. Y 7192 was converted to mechanical transmission and renumbered as Y 7001. This locomotive was the prototype for the Y7400 class. Operators In addition to SNCF, VLFI have purchased four Y 7100 locomotives (numbers 7172, 7200, 7214 & 7245) from SNCF. two further locos are recorded in use in the Port of Rouen ( Grand port maritime de Rouen ''french''). Some of them are preserved by touristic railroads. References External links *Fleet list (SNCF): ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APPEVA
The Froissy Dompierre Light Railway (french: Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre, CFCD) is a narrow gauge light railway running from Froissy (a hamlet of La Neuville-lès-Bray) to Dompierre-Becquincourt, through Cappy, in the Somme department, France. It is run as a heritage railway by APPEVA (''Association Picarde pour la Préservation et l'Entretien des Véhicules Anciens'') and is also known as ''P'tit Train de la Haute Somme''. It is the last survivor of the narrow gauge trench railways of the World War I battlefields. History In 1915, the French Army built a railway along the Somme Canal between Péronne and Froissy. Between 1916 and 1918 the railway was at the Allied front line, and transporting 1,500 tonnes of materials daily. At Froissy, the metre gauge Réseau Albert connected with the CFCD. After the war, the railway was used in assisting with the reconstruction and also to bring food into the villages it served. New lines were laid including a zig-zag to reach t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tacot Des Lacs
The Tramway at Bourron (French ''Réseau des Sablières de Bourron au Canal du Loing'') was a long gauge railway that ran from the sand pits at Bourron-Marlotte via the Bourron-Marlotte – Grez railway station to the Canal du Loing opposite to Montcourt-Fromonville in France. History The ''Société des Sandlières de Bourron'' was founded in 1911 to exploit the Bourron sand pits, located in the Forest of Fontainebleau, west of the village of Bourron-Marlotte and north of the Bourron-Marlotte – Grez railway station. Very high quality quartz glass can be produced from the dazzling white sand mined in the Arrondissement of Fontainebleau. It is mainly used for the production of crystal glass and optical glass, e.g. for the optical instruments of NASA.Philippe Lévêque et Daniel Tallet''Petits Trains pittoresques.''Éd. Jean-Cyrille Godefroy, 12, rue Chabanais, 75002 Paris.According t''Ancien réseau des sablières de Darvault au canal du Loing'' Philippe Lévêque and Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voie Ferrée D'intérêt Local
In France, a (; "Railway of Local Interest"), abbreviated VFIL, is a secondary railway constructed by a local administrative division, serving sparsely populated rural areas. These areas were beyond the economic reach of the networks of the , which were concessions of the ("Big Companies")By is meant the principal railway companies, analogous to the Big Four British railway companies: * Chemin de Fer du Nord * Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée * Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans et du Midi * Chemins de fer de l'Est * Chemins de Fer de l'État * Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest * Réseau Ferroviaire d'Alsace-Lorraine These were nationalised on 1 January 1938, forming the SNCF. who ran their lines for profit. Birth The Prefect of the Bas-Rhin department, Monsieur Migneret, invented the VFIL concept. The first VFILs saw the light of day in Bas-Rhin in 1859, when the Act of 21 May 1836 came into force, defining the prefecture's powers over highways. This econom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Draisine Billard RB
A draisine () is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure. The eponymous term is derived from the German inventor Baron Karl Drais, who invented his ''Laufmaschine'' (German for "running machine") in 1817, which was called ''Draisine'' in German (''vélocipède'' or ''draisienne'' in French) by the press. It is the first reliable claim for a practically used precursor to the bicycle, basically the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine, nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse. Later, the name draisine came to be applied only to the invention used on rails and was extended to similar vehicles, even when not human-powered. Because of their low weight and small size, they can be put on and taken off the rails at any place, allowing trains to pass. In the United States, motor-powered draisines are known as speeders while human- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micheline (railcar)
Michelines were a series of rubber-tyred trains developed in France in the 1930s by various rail companies and rubber-tyre manufacturer Michelin. Some Michelines were built in the United States by the Budd Company. Most Michelines were self-propelled, but a number of locomotive-hauled trainsets were also produced. Michelines offered unprecedented ride smoothness, but they soon proved to be problematic because the low load that the wheels could bear limited railcar sizes and demanded a high number of tyres (up to 20) per car. Furthermore, they were subject to flat tyres, unlike cars with steel wheels. Eventually, the Michelines gave way to rubber-tyred metro A rubber-tyred metro or rubber-tired metro is a form of rapid transit system that uses a mix of road and rail technology. The vehicles have wheels with rubber tires that run on rolling pads inside guide bars for traction, as well as traditional ...s, pioneered by the RATP (Paris transit authority) which introduced the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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