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No. 3.1161 is a 4-6-2 steam locomotive that was built for the Chemins de fer du Nord by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques in 1912. in 1944, 3.1161 (which was 231 A 11 at the time) was pulling a train when some sabotagers wrecked and sabotaged her on a bridge over the canche river near etaples France, this was during the resistance sabotage of world war 2, and it caused her to plunge into the river, at the beginning of the 1990's a group of amateurs considered taking her out of the water and restoring her, today, she is still in the river

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