Les Cités Obscures, a collaboration with his childhood friend, Benoît Peeters began at the age of 12 on a school magazine; Benoît wrote the fictional stories, Fançois made the imaginative drawings, and pretty soon the faculty tried to stop them from publishing it, preferring Latin translations and moralizing anecdotes as more appropriate subject matters.
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The green streamlined locomotive is the Belgian Railways Type 12 4-4-2 - were built in 1939 to haul trains from Brussels to Ostend – 70.8 miles – in exactly one hour. They were one of the last, if not the last steam locomotives to use a 4-4-2 wheel arrangement.
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