141R 568 is a mechanical stoker, coal fired variant of the 141R class. Built by Baldwin in 1945, it has bar frames and boxpok wheels on the crank axle.
Cylinder dimensions are 597mm diameter by 711mm stroke, giving a maximum tractive effort of 242kN at a boiler pressure of 15.5 bar.
In the course of its SNCF career, 568 was based at Belfort where, among other routes, it worked the line to the Swiss frontier station of Delle, Boulougne (where it routinely hauled the heavy car sleeper expresses on the first leg of their journey as far as Amiens) and the coal and steel centre of Sarreguemines in Lorraine. In later life 568 found its way to the historic French junction of Capdenac in the southern Auvergne where it was intended to haul tourist trains, a project which, having failed in France, now finally reaches its fulfilment in Switzerland.
