French Eastern Railway series 13 No. 151-751 to 780

Starting in 1930, the French Eastern Railway had a series of 2-10-2T tank locomotives built for heavy coal and ore trains. These came directly from the engines with the numbers 5001, 5002 and 5901 to 5925, which had brought the name “Lorraine” to this wheel arrangement in France. They took over the chassis including the axles and the boiler with Belpaire firebox from the previous series. However, the three-cylinder engine was taken over from the 2-10-0 tender locomotives with the numbers 150-001 to 150-195, which hab been built for the Est by SACM in Alsace since 1926.

The locomotives were initially only used in the east of the country, where they proved themselves in their intended purpose, even if the performance hardly excelled that of their predecessors. Due to the design with three cylinders, however, smoother running under heavy loads was to be expected. From 1938, they became the 151 TC 751 to 760 with the SNCF. Between 1950 and 1961, ten units were in service in the northern region, where they were used on the Paris circle line and north of the city. There one of their tasks was the supply of the power plant in Porcheville. Decommissioning did not begin until 1957 and the remaining machines still pulled heavy freight trains in the last few years before finally disappearing in 1966.