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!