Between 1913 and 1917 the French state railway company ÉTAT purchased 340 copies of the 1’D 140 C steam locomotive. After the beginning of the First World War, production was outsourced to British manufacturers. A third series of 70 machines was ordered for the transport of French artillery trains and after the War sold in equal parts to the French Eastern Railway EST and the PLM. The locomotives intended for freight train service developed 1210 hp and achieved an impressive 70 km/h for a freight locomotive. The 140 C 287 rented by the state-owned SNCF to Chemins de fer transport automobile CFTA had the honor of pulling the last regular steam train on state railroad tracks in September 1975.
| Key | Functions | Sound slots | Volume CVs | Volume values |
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| F0 | front light | | | |
| F1 | sound on/off | 1, 2, 28, 32 | 259, 267, 475, 507 | 255, 255, 15, 3 |
| F2 | whistle * | 3 | 275 | 210 |
| F3 | short whistle * | 4 | 283 | 210 |
| F4 | coal shoveling * | 5 | 291 | 25 |
| F5 | heavy load | | | |
| F6 | acceleration/brake time, shunting mode/shunting speed | | | |
| F7 | curve squeal | 15 | 371 | 30 |
| F8 | AUX#1 | | | |
| F9 | cylinder blow out | 9 | 323 | 130 |
| F10 | conductor's signal | 10 | 331 | 48 |
| F11 | coupler clank | 8 | 315 | 70 |
| F12 | coasting | | | |
| F13 | set brake/brake release (automaticly) | 13 | 355 | 50 |
| F14 | announcement #1 | 14 | 363 | 80 |
| F15 | ESU smoke generator | | | |
| F16 | safety valve | 12 | 347 | 128 |
| F17 | brake function 1 (brake valve sound) | 25 | 451 | 40 |
| F18 | announcement #2 | 7 | 307 | 80 |
| F19 | injector | 20 | 411 | 20 |
| F20 | watertank refill | 18 | 395 | 40 |
| F21 | dumping | 19 | 403 | 70 |
| F22 | airpump (slow) | 6 | 299 | 20 |
| F23 | sanding valve | 11 | 339 | 35 |
| F24 | soundfader | | | |
| F25 | disable brake squeal sound | | | |
| F26 | Stuffing box in slow speed on/off | | | |
| F27 | airpump (fast) | 27 | 467 | 20 |
Make sure that index CV31 is set to 16 and index CV32 is set to 1 before changing a volume CV.