SNCF Lipietz case) in France as well as in the United States (where subsidiary Keolis is a transportation contractor) to the present day. In 1992 SNCF commissioned French academics to write a history of SNCF activities during World War II. The resultant report was published in 1996. More recently, some sources have claimed that SNCF billed Nazi-occupied France for third-class tickets for Holocaust victims transported to extermination camps, although passengers were transported in cattle cars. Other sources have reported that after the liberation of France SNCF continued to seek payment for transporting Holocaust victims to Germany. However, historian Michael Marrus has
SNCF BB 1-80 SNCF BB 1-80 The SNCF locomotives BB 1 to BB 80 were a class of 1500 V DC 4-axle electric locomotives originally built for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans in the 1920s. The locomotives were originally numbered E.1 to E.80 prior to the Paris and Orleans railway company's incorporation into the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF) in 1937. The locomotives were used on both passenger and freight services, particularly in the suburbs of Paris. Between 1948 and 1950 28 of the class were sent to the depot at Chambéry to help with increased traffic