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Not just Jz.
Also CSD, were in the Praha node.
Go here:
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In the middle of page you try the history of E 666 of CSD Railways.
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The E.626 Czechoslovakian
The history of the other six machines (015, 016, 017, 019, 021, 024), also all belonging to the second series, is more adventurous. They were requisitioned by the Nazis who took them from the Udine railway management. The Germans needed tractors for the 3 kV DC electrified railway lines in occupied Poland, in the area around Warsaw. However, not all of them reached Poland: during the transfer the 015 suffered serious damage in Austria, in the Salzburg area, due to a bombing. He remained there until after the end of the war, and returned to Italy in 1951. The five tractors that had reached Poland returned during the retreat. The 016 reached Bavaria (Fischbach, in the Rosenheim - Kufstein area) and in October 1945 it was returned to Italy. The remaining four found themselves in Czechoslovakia at the end of the conflict. Captured by the Red Army, in 1951 they were delivered to the ČSD (Československé státní dráhy, Czechoslovak Railways). The latter assigned 019 to supply spare parts, and transformed the other three to 1.5 kV DC to be able to use them in the Prague area, where they served from 1953 registered in group 666. E.626.017 became E666.001 , the 024 received the number 002 and the 021 was re-registered 003. They were painted in dark green with a red star on the sides. They were primarily used to replace steam engines in the movement of freight trains between the stations of Praha Smíchov and Praha Vršovice, which were connected by two 1146 m and 1126 m tunnels, called "Vinhorady" (the vineyards), named after the neighborhood they pass underneath (a third tunnel was built in the late 1980s). It is easy to imagine why the steam should be replaced on that short but busy stretch. When in 1962 the electrification of the area went to 3000 V DC, the CSDs did not consider it economic to convert the 666 to the original voltage, and moved them to the Rybník - Lipno and Tabor - Bechyne lines, where they were used until 1966 when the demolition (Information from Hans Rosenberger: "History on the tracks - Locomotives E.666 CSD", iTreni, no. 300, January 2008).
