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The trials ended when Thuile was killed in June 1900, apparently because he leant too far out of the locomotive and hit a lineside pole or a piece of scaffolding supporting an overbridge. The locomotive was returned to Schneider and was scrapped in 1904. The tender survived until at least 1946, when
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with 2.5-metre-diameter (8 ft 2 in) driving wheels, and a forward cab for the driver. The two-cylinder locomotive had
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and a double-lobed boiler of nickel-steel. The locomotive was exhibited at the
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The design was taken up by Schneider, of Le Creusot, who built a
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or 6-4-6 locomotive with 3-metre-diameter (9 ft 10 in)
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510 mm × 700 mm (20 in × 28 in)
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24.80 m (81 ft 4 in) (locomotive and tender)
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Whyte
4-4-6
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Gauge
1,435 mm
Leading dia.
Driver
Trailing dia.
Wheelbase
t
long tons
Cylinders
Cylinder size
Chemin de Fer de l'Etat
steam locomotive
Alexandria
Egypt
6-4-8

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