One of the most unexpected USI car ever:
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2nd-class/driving-car "Cyclope" USI car (B10tx) of SNCF.
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This is actually a standard B10t USI car, fitted with a cramped cab in 1972, so as to run USI formations in pull-push operation on Paris-Orléans-Tours-Poitiers, using BB-9533 and 9535, at 160Km/h.
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Owing to that little and single window, this car was quickly nicknamed "Cyclope".
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This experiment paved the way for pull-push Corail formations (using B6Dux driving-cars and adapted Class 9200), which ran on that line from 1978 until 1987.
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Paris-Austerlitz.
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1980
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Photo by Bernard Vieu (Acknowledgements)
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# bernard.vieu@wanadoo.fr
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Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)