ARBED Mines 67

Design Number 685

The locomotive was used by ARBED Mines Françaises at the “Mine des Terres Rouges.”
Like its sister locomotives, Locomotive 67 operated in double-head configuration with Locomotive 63 until 1991.

Starting in 1991, locomotives 63, 67, and 69 operated in a triple-unit formation (3 × 258 kW = 774 kW).
This high power output was necessary to haul the heavy ore trains to Esch-Alzette. It should be noted that the average gradient of the line was between 20 and 30‰.
Such an ore train consisted of either 8 (total 304 metric tons), 10 (total 383 metric tons), or 12 (total 447 metric tons) cars.
After ARBED ceased iron ore production in 1997, the locomotive was added to the Minièresbunn collection.

1996: Still in regular operation at ARBED Mines Françaises