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Electric Engines

The multivoltage Swiss unit RABe 1050 is arrived in Milan Centrale as Eurocity train Manzoni from Zürich Hbf, on 25 January 1993.
Electric Engines - Milano Centrale

 

The two Swiss RABe units to Lausanne are exceptionally pulled by an E.444 engine, in Milan Certosa, on 21 March 1993.
Electric Engines - Milano Certosa

 

ALe 540.003 carries out local services to Novi Ligure, in Tortona on 5 June 1999.
Electric Engines - Tortona

 

The regional train Verona - Trento, made of ALe 840 multiple units, runs between the River Adige and the impressive face of the Ceraino gorge, on 13 September 1997.
Electric Engines - Ceraino

 

The three types of electric engines that characterised the transition between the traditional railway of the Seventies and the first electronic locomotives of the Eighties: E.632.054, E.444.053 ed E.656.306 in Milano Greco on 9 october 1987 (photo G. Demuru).
Electric Engines - Milano Greco.

 

Travelling on a Railcar

Chapter 3
Travelling on a Railcar

There is a whole special world that lives around railcars, a world made of secondary lines, small stations, typical landscapes that have always been the kingdom of such trains, whether they are the flat paddy-fields in Lomellina or the rough lines that cross the Appennini, or even some scenic routes through the Alps, such as the Tenda line. And even though many railcars were built for important fast trains, they often ended their career just along secondary lines, as it happened, for instance, to the famous ALn 990.

It is also worth to remark that, if on the one hand many of these minor lines have often run the risk of being closed, it is exactly on some of them that, in the last years, a new tourist service has been successfully undertaken, and many other lines could follow this path!

 

Belgioioso (Pavia), 19 August 1985 (photo G. Demuru).
Travelling on a Railcar - Belgioioso

 

Nuovo! In 1984, ALn 772 railcars are at the end of their career, and run last local services around Novara, especially towards Varallo (photo G. Demuru).
Travelling on a Railcar - Novara.

 

The regional train Aulla - Lucca runs in the presence of the medieval bridge of Maddalena, near Borgo a Mozzano, on 17 July 1994.
Travelling on a Railcar - Borgo a Mozzano

 

ALn 663.1163 climbs up the Maritime Alps along the impressive Roya Valley, and arrives at Tenda, on 21 August 1997.
Travelling on a Railcar - Tenda

 

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