9 posts tagged “italy”
More information about these nice railcars are available in Italian, French and English languages (the English one is a Google automatic translation from Italian: maybe not precise and complete, sorry for this)
Most of these railcars have been dismantled: only the ALn 448 2007 (half a train) is actually shown at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milano
This old railcar, belonging to the group friendly named ‘Littorina’, comes from the FS rack-line Paola - Cosenza
Built in 1939, and operating till 1984, it has been fully restored in 1990 by Metalmeccanica Milanesio
In 1990 it was bought by a rich US gentleman, Mr. Wolfson, to be used for tourist tours at an US Museum
I have no recent news about it
I took all the above pictures when the railcar was shown at Genova Brignole station just before loading it on the ship to the USA
Regular steam-trains ended in Italy about in mid 70’s.
Nowadays, only few steam engines are running for extra and tourist trains.
I just issued a new collection about Italian Steam: enjoy it!
I took the most of my pictures with two old semi-automatic Yashica reflex cameras: a 1986 FX-D quartz and a younger FX-3 Super and using slide film and, even now, I go on using those cameras till when I’ll have enough money to buy a suitable digital reflex camera.
But on yesterday afternoon I was in a railway station, waiting for a train, without my cameras and I tried to take this picture using my mobile: an old Siemens S65 with a 1,3 Megapixel camera ... sure, the quality isn’t the best, but for an emergency can be enough ;)
Here follow some pictures of Italian electric railcars
You can find them even in the Italy collection
FS ALe 883 002 near Pontida on the 20th of March in 1988
FS ALe 644 006 in Rho station on the 28th of December in 1987
FS ALe660 012 in Treviso station on the 29th of April in 1990
FS ALe 601 017 arriving at Firenze Santa Maria Novella station on the 15th of October in 1989
FS ALe 582 057 near Broni on the 26th of July in 1995
FS ALe 840 059 arriving at Milano Rogoredo station on the 16th of April in 1990
FS ALe 426 015 (TAF) in Milano Certosa station on the 26th of April in 2002
The E444 'family' were projected to be the fastest FS engines at that time (end of 60’s)
These engines were frendly named ‘tartaruga’ (turtle) and the above logo was painted over each of them.
They are able to reach a speed of 200km/h
In the ‘80’s the gear ratio was modified on 18 units from the standard 40/77 to 42/75, in order to improve the performance.
At the beginning of 90’s all these engines were subjected to a substantial revamping, consisting of re-designed engineer’s cabs, new electrical and electronic equipment, new gear ratio (42/75) for all the units.
Nowadays, they are still running painted with the current XMPR livery
… I’m italian, and, at present, I posted only few pictures from Italian Railways …
I must remedy ^__^
… see more pictures in “Italy” collection … as usual, even this collection will grow …
