50Hz-AC (dual-voltage) prototype BB-20004 of SNCF.

Actually a former Class 16500 (BB-16540), rebuilt with 1.5 + 25kV in 1959.
It then ran around Annecy, along with other, older prototypes and Class 25000.
Re-instated to BB-16540 in 1969.

Aix-les-Bains.

July 1963.

Photo by Michel Lavertu (Acknowledgements)
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