Video from 1997 revised only in the background music (copyright ...). Tirano station, 27 July 1997: I frame locomotive 52 ABe 4/4 'Brusio' and I remember a little video from 1990, already published, all in the cabin, from Tirano to St. Moritz. Title: ''Ferrovia Bernina in cabin ABe 53 RHB, year 1990' (published in 2014). The 53 was the 'Tirano', today I leave with the 52, 'Brusio'. Let's go. No, there aren't many Italian villages where the railway passes through ... in the square and along the city streets. After crossing the border, here immediately is Campocologno, canton of Grisons. We cross the 56, isolated. Before passing mountains, lakes and glaciers, the Bernina red train (but calling it a 'train' is toooo reductive!!) now takes a 360° turn on a monument to the railway: the Brusio helical viaduct, built in 1910. From the windows, the passengers in the lead see the tail end of the long convoy: a minute and a half of spectacle. Miralago and the ancient lake of Poschiavo. Le Prese, a village directly overlooking the lake. Cantoniera: it is a station only for crossings. The Poschiavino, a torrential river. The Poschiavo station: it is flat but immediately after (how can you not notice it: it looks like a take-off) the 7% natural adhesion ramp begins: another spectacle. Brief images of the lightning-fast visit to the town, among patrician houses, churches and museums. I visit the Evangelical Church built in the mid-1600s as a consequence of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. A completely different approach, however, with the Catholic Oratory of St. Anna: funerary chapel and ossuary in full view: memento mori. At Poschiavo station: the orange and original Ge 2/2 161 RHB, built by Sig and Alioth in 1911, is operating. The twin Ge 2/2 162 was also filmed. A tribute to old glories in storage: the ABe 4/4 35 and 36. It arrives and I take the Bernina Express Tirano-Landquart. The Bernina Express: the most spectacular Alpine crossing that connects different linguistic and cultural areas. On the line, at the Cavagliasch tunnel, a small problem: the engines lose power and the train stalls on the climb. Actually: no problem. We go back ... the descent is there on purpose ... but a restart fails. We go back to a flat stretch and, OK, we start again. A doubling on the line for intersections: Stablini station. The unmistakable sloping terrace of the Cavaglia station, at 1692 metres. An old post station for horses. The little red train's climb up the mountainsides is magnificent, with its sinuous and spiral path, with its 180° turns between one tunnel and another and ever higher. I get off at ALP GRÜM, at 2091 metres above sea level, in front of Piz Palù. You can only get here by train or ... on foot. With the friends I'm with, we walk down to Cavaglia, always keeping an eye on the windings of the line. From Cavaglia a little red train takes us back to Tirano. In the railway depot, Arturo Paruscio has been collecting historic rolling stock for some years ... and what rolling stock. In 1994 an association was also born: the 'Gruppo ALe 883'. The opportunity to go and greet Arturo in his kingdom comes in April 2000, during a stay in Bormio. Brief images of the Stelvio, the pass at 2758 meters, where I drive around with my Bravo. A few brief shots in Tirano and off to the depot, with the red Bernina trains in the background. Arturo is in full activity with the rolling stock. I take a photo of a 214 railcar and a beautiful Corbellini from the historic convoy. In the shed the GR 880 051 and the E 626 443, in the sun in the yard the GR 740 311. As a loco-monument there is the GR 851 057. My dear friend Emilio paints a watercolour ... which is now on my desk.