French locomotives

French locomotives

Could you pick up from the following list those MIDI 1B-2 and " Bourbonnais " C-n2 locomotives which are marked Saloniki 1919 -> Odessa. They were sent by the French to Odessa during the Russian Civil War in 1919 to support the interventing French Army in Southern Ukraine and the White Russian Army operating in Southern Russia against the Bolsheviks.

MIDI ( Chemins de Fer du MIDI )

114 1B-n2 Gouin 154 1855 "Marmande" 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

115 1B-n2 Gouin 155 1855 "Tonneins" 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

127 1B-n2 Gouin 167 1855 "Villefrance" 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

979 C-n2 StEG 1668 1882 type 77b 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

986 C-n2 StEG 1675 1882 type 77b 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

987 C-n2 StEG 1676 1882 type 77b 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

1004 C-n2 StEG 1633 1882 type 77a 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

1015 C-n2 StEG 1644 1882 type 77a 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

1017 C-n2 StEG 1646 1882 type 77a 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

1022 C-n2 StEG 1651 1882 type 77a 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

1038 C-n2 StEG 1702 1883 type 77c 1916 -> Salonique 1919 -> Odessa CFR Bessarabia + 01.07.1922

I have read the Memories of Russian White General Denikin who wrote them in his refugee years in Belgrad. He described that the French locomotives were used on Odessa-Zhmerinka-Lwow line which the Austrians had regauged to standard gauge in 1918.Thus some might have ended into the Polish hands as they took the northern part of this line in April 1919 under their control.

Jukka Nurminen