The yellow triangular road warning sign saying BETTERAVES (French for sugar beets) warns drivers of slippery road conditions from fallen beets during the harvest season. This network originally served local sugar refineries to haul crops from the fields.
The railway line is narrow-gauge 600mm (a bit under 2 ft) track. It was the last operating survivor of the massive military trench railways built to supply the battlefields of World War I.The locomotive is Franco-Belge N°2836 (CFCD N°10), an 0-8-0T built originally in 1945 for industrial and sugar-beet transport, and it is now classified as a French Monument Historique (National Heritage Site).
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