(rshsdepot) The "Picasso rail-cars"...(answer to unique looking railcar)

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

see: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rail-22/ang/autorailang.htm
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rail-22/ang/projetang.htm

< The name « Picasso » comes from the original position of the driving
cabin. Like the painter's subjects they don't have the nose in the middle of
the face: the cab is not in the center of the roof.>  Built 1950 to 1961.

Picasso thermal railcars. < The PICASSO, part of the X 3800 series, was
specially designed for local and semi-direct service. Built between 1950 and
1961 by the Régie Nationale Renault and the Ateliers du Nord de la France,
they were hugely popular during the 1960s. The last railcar of this type was
withdrawn from service in 1988.
The PICASSO at Le Train Capitale belongs to a Dijon association (Autorails
de Bourgogne et de Franche-Comté) and is used for tourist trips.>

Here is Picasso railcar X4039 at Sermizelles-Vezelay station in 2003:
http://frenchrailways.homestead.com/files/picasso_at_sermizelles_vezezlayopt
.jpg
http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/SERMIZELLES.jpg
Different cars:
http://frenchrailways.homestead.com/files/autorail_at_sermizelles.jpg
2001: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Actu/BB2001.gif
Sermizelles-Vezelay is in center of France I think near Nevers and St.
Florent.
It is in "the Morvan"
On a branch line:  <The single track railway from the junction at
Cravant-Bazarnes to Avallon (38km) follows the valley of the river Cure,
tributary of the Yonne.  It was opened in 1873.  There are several bridges
over the river and a short tunnel.  The line is very picturesque as it
climbs to reach an altitude of 250m (800 ft) at Avallon, after passing the
villages of Vermenton, Arcy-sur-Cure and Sermizelles-Vezelay. >
Gare de Avallon is on this one track line:
http://frenchrailways.homestead.com/files/avallon_station2c.jpg
http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/AVALLON.jpg
A different railcar at Avallon 1998:
http://frenchrailways.homestead.com/files/x4500_pasengersavallonc.jpg
Cravant-Bazarnes station, 1988: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/CRAVANT.jpg
Gare de Vermenton, 1983: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/VERMENTON.jpg
The Picasso car on the Grottes d'Arcy viaduct:
http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/ARCY.jpg
Arcy sur Cure gare: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/Arcysurcure.jpeg
Avallon last stop on this schedule, here are other stations on this railroad

This is in the Burgundy area south of France:
http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Imagesdivers/MINILOGO.jpg
and  here is the schedule now: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/horaire.htm
Brion-Laizy: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/BRION.jpg
Etang: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/ETANG.jpg
Auxerre is a big station on this line, north of Avalon: 1998 with Picasso
car on right: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/AUXERRE1.jpg
Manley 1992: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/MANLAY.jpg
Manley 2003: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Actu/73580MANLAY.jpg
Manley, 2004: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Actu/40393886.jpeg
at Laizy: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Actu/X4039.gif
Saulieu, 1964: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/saulieu1.jpeg
Saulieu, 1987: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/SAULIEU.jpg
Auten, 1975 with very cute observation cars that resemble cabooses:
http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/AUTUN1.jpg
Auten, 1986: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Imagesdivers/GAREAUTUN.jpg
Auten, 2000: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Actu/BB66600.gif
Dracy-St. Loup station, 1979: http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/DRACY.jpg
http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/dracy.htm
And here we are back again with a Picasso railcar at Dracy-St. Loup, 2004:
http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Imagesdivers/4039index.jpg
And Picasso car X4039 at Maison-Dieu station on this line:
http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/MAISONDIEU.jpg
Different Picasso railcars at Laroche-Migennes, 1985:
http://tra.morvan.free.fr/Gares/LarocheM.jpeg
Some neat signs:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rue_du_petit_train/lignes/sudest/cravant-leslaumes.h
tm

Here is the Picasso car on a fantrip in same area and adjacent ones,
excellent pictures, excellent stations:
http://www.ruralrail-france.com/phototrain3.html

Here is Picasso railcar, the"Gentiane express at Riom-ès-Montagne in the
Cantal (Auvergne) 2002: http://home.clara.net/denwood/MikesMR/Images/ge.jpg
Not the unusual design, though.

Picasso car (Autorail Picasso) on trip to Sézanne, 2002, Great tunnel
entrance pictures: http://cherspas.free.fr/souvenir2809e.htm

Picasso cars around France:
See one moving on the top of this page on the Chemin de fer de a Traconne:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jl.batonnet/esternay/cftt.htm
On exhibit in Paris:
http://yvaugeois.free.fr/dossier/LE%20TRAIN%20CAPITALE/PICASSO.JPG
http://www.bouffier.org/images/paris/thumbs/P6150755.JPG
Called  Le Furet  at Moulot station on the Clemency-Entrains line, 1996:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rail.vaux.d.yonne/Images/furet2.JPG

#3989 at Gare de Vogüé: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/edouard.paris/200326.jpg


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