To be complete I need to remember the heavy shunting locos that have been used for main line services.
The first diesels that made regularly line services were the Whitcomb locos that came in Italy in 1944 with the USATC and helped allied troops to conquest the boot.
After WW2 49 of these "battle horses" were incorporated in FS rolling stock as class Ne 120 and destined mainly to heavy shunting but also to some minor line services. In the 60s they have been rebuilt substituting the original two Buda Lanova engines with one, more powerful, OM Saurer and reclassified as D 143.Because of their robust construction, the class arrived until yesterday; if I well remember the last "Truman" has been in service at Leghorn harbor until 2015. Now some units are preserved as historic items
D143.3026 caught during a movement between two Leghorn yards in 2006. Another movement in the Leghorn harbor area, in this case D 143.3007 crossing a rare turning bridge in 2001. The two images By S. Paolini courtesy of Photorail.
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The first diesels that made regularly line services were the Whitcomb locos that came in Italy in 1944 with the USATC and helped allied troops to conquest the boot.
After WW2 49 of these "battle horses" were incorporated in FS rolling stock as class Ne 120 and destined mainly to heavy shunting but also to some minor line services. In the 60s they have been rebuilt substituting the original two Buda Lanova engines with one, more powerful, OM Saurer and reclassified as D 143.Because of their robust construction, the class arrived until yesterday; if I well remember the last "Truman" has been in service at Leghorn harbor until 2015. Now some units are preserved as historic items
D143.3026 caught during a movement between two Leghorn yards in 2006. Another movement in the Leghorn harbor area, in this case D 143.3007 crossing a rare turning bridge in 2001. The two images By S. Paolini courtesy of Photorail.
Ciao
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