This locomotive deposit is a real living museum:
This line, one of the few private ones in Italy, do all its operation with
used rolling stock. Most of these rolling stock are now more than 70 years
old, so can truly be considered historic ones.
This one pictured below is one of the older ones:
The E626.006 was one of the first prototypes build in
1925-1927 (in origin E625.006 for freight, soon renamed to E626) and when
arrived in this railway in 1986 was repainted in its original 20's livery.
The third fanal was not however present in the original configuration and
the slider of pantograph is not the original one type.
Note however the white border on the buffer, even this typical of the livery
of origin of the epock when these locomotives was built.
Under the shed was present another E626 of serial type (we talk anyway
of the 30's) with a sligtly different frontal corps (that contain rheostats)
less rounded. Even the red and green fanal was added upon the refurbishment
of 1986 to be used for push-pull trains (this locomodive had just pushed
a train since it held the end of train red-white striped panel.)
Remote control was added at this time but in the 40's some locomotives
of this group hed been equipped for PP operation.
The Pilot car are ex sncb cars of the 50's , the most recent rolling stock
they have.
These blue-white
EMU was used until a few years ago by the Benevento-Cancello railway, that
in turn get in 1958 from the then suppressed Pisa-Livorno tramway. The
original frame of these EMUs was built in 1932.
Behind them you see two centoporte cars, build for FS around 1921. These
cars was there only temporarily waiting to be refurbished and used for
steam train, once repainted in green. (the so called verde vagone of the
first years of century)
In the center you see the typical LFI trainset, with their standard colour:
These trainset use one
pilot car, one or two intermediate car and a locomotive or a EMU at
the other end. They have some E624 EMU from FS,
build in 1925 for 650VDC in the Milano-Varese line, then rebuilt for 3000V
in 1931 .
These are the only one of this group still in service. Other BB locomotives
that use for train are part of the ones that where bought in 1931 when
they electrified their lines.
In the two above pictures got on may 1987 you can see the two liveries
of these old EMU.
This very old car from FAV was there waiting for restoration for a museum.
Of course not only the rolling stock are pieces for a museum. This rail in the yard carry the date of manifacturing 1888, that is the date when the line was built.
This last picture show a group of engines removed from locomotives .
This line have also bought together whith the E626s also one D341, one of the first Diesel-Electric train locomotive built in Italy in 1959. but at LFI this got a black one, similar to the E626005 instead than in brown as its original livery of the 50's . It is possible that brown seemed too much new, if put with the other rolling stock of the railway.
This is
another old baggage car, in origin a tramway car, stored in a station along
the Sinalunga-Arezzo line while in this image
below you see the different type of signals used in this line. Instead
of the commont FS type signals, with only one lamp and a mechanichal system
of filters, this one has two lamps, one for green one for red and no mechanichal
parts. On right the older suspension for catenary, that at that time (1987)
was beginning to be substituted for the standard FS one. On second
line You see a part of line with new caterary, but old semaphores. and
a LIGTHLY used industrial spur.
Just below in a much more recent picture you see one of their locomotive in a new livery, while the cars have still the older-older grey one
