The doomed and the saved
E656-294 leads a train of museum equipment north towards Messina where some of it will head back to the mainland. The equipment was used the day before on a pair of excursion trains from Catania. I had stayed in Catania the night before and was hoping the equipment would go north the next night and when I got to the station sure enough they were shunting the train together. The problem was that it would be a long wait for the next train for me to get to my desired photo spot. Thinking surprisingly quickly I checked the bus schedule and saw indeed, there was a bus leaving in just a few minutes. I arrived at my spot in Letojanni and amazingly the heavy cloud cover cleared off right before the train. I think this was the only time I was disappointed to see a E656 on the trip as I was hoping the trailing E646 would lead. However the E656 will likely soon be scrap metal while the 646 should be safe. Note, I removed alot of graffiti from the front of the loco, it was tempting to paint back the FS logos that have been missing for atleast a year but thats too much fakery.
The doomed and the saved
E656-294 leads a train of museum equipment north towards Messina where some of it will head back to the mainland. The equipment was used the day before on a pair of excursion trains from Catania. I had stayed in Catania the night before and was hoping the equipment would go north the next night and when I got to the station sure enough they were shunting the train together. The problem was that it would be a long wait for the next train for me to get to my desired photo spot. Thinking surprisingly quickly I checked the bus schedule and saw indeed, there was a bus leaving in just a few minutes. I arrived at my spot in Letojanni and amazingly the heavy cloud cover cleared off right before the train. I think this was the only time I was disappointed to see a E656 on the trip as I was hoping the trailing E646 would lead. However the E656 will likely soon be scrap metal while the 646 should be safe. Note, I removed alot of graffiti from the front of the loco, it was tempting to paint back the FS logos that have been missing for atleast a year but thats too much fakery.