2 March 2014, Forgotten Railways Day. I start by arriving in Bergamo ... 7 years earlier, in the cabin of the ALe 883 007, passing the colonial yellow and lichen green ALn 668 1401, the Varesina E 623, a complex of ALe 601s, the smoking steamer 625 177. Nooo, you just don't arrive and always like this in the degraded Bergamo station, opened in the mid 1800s by the Sudbhan with the Ferdinandea railway; the renovation was decided in 2010, the end of the works ... not in sight. So here it is, 2 March 2014, a rainy day, I leave Palazzolo on a battered, shameful ALe 562. The historic convoy arrives in Bergamo station hauled by the fog grey and magnolia green E 646 196 (Aerfer Ocren 1966); at the end the diesel-electric D 343 1030 (Fiat Breda Marelli Tibb). Engine driver Arturo Paruscio; with him Gabriele. Arturo goes to light, with the classic black smoke, the 343. The train is formed by the generator van AT 3000 v. Vrec 99-39 811, the Centoporte BZ 37353, 39134, 39089 and the postal baggage car DUz 95012. I climb into the cabin of the E 646 and we set off for Palazzolo. A troubled journey; the SCMT of this cabin immediately starts to act up, acoustic signal and train that stalls. It will continue to happen; Arturo leads in his own way, but against the electronics ... and both he and Gabriele explain causes and effects. They also explain the complicated lateralization of the doors on historic trains. At Palazzolo station, on the second track, the parade of historic FBS vehicles: Badoni 216 year 1964, Sogliola 207 year 1938, 'box' cube 209 year 1956, yellow draisine with the two-faced nose of the Fiat 850T van. The E 646 detaches from the train, maneuvers and places itself on the second track, with the FBS vehicles. Then I follow Arturo in the cabin of the D 343 and the maneuvers begin to bring the train onto the Palazzolo-Paratico tracks. We set off; the three side-by-side bridges of the A4 motorway pass by, under which we pass. We are in Franciacorta, on the 10 km of the line on the banks of the Oglio river, among the precious vineyards. Capriolo in the background. On the line, 40 miles per hour and marching by sight. The Calepio castle passes by, on the Bergamo side, and I mention Calepino. We pass where the Capriolo station once stood, demolished years ago. We arrive in Paratico, stopping 200 meters before the beautiful station, no longer accessible today ... they removed the tracks, the end of an era. The 343 shunts and returns to the front, Palazzolo side. On the postal baggage car, equipped with a bar counter and tables, Federico Cremonesi, historic train conductor of steam trains! I go to visit the ... remains of the landing stage on the lake, where the wagons were loaded onto barges that a tugboat took to Lovere. At the station, flights of grey herons, with nests in the large sequoias next to the tracks. Return to Palazzolo on the baggage car bar at the end of the train; we pass the picturesque Fosio with the dam that regulates the waters of the lake, year 1933, then Franciacorta, the Curtes franche of the Benedictine monasteries of the Middle Ages, exempt from taxes. The PL del Matto, a name given to it for a character who attended it, the small village of Cividino, with important historical remains. At Palazzolo station, the D 343 shunts and returns to the front of the train, Paratico side, and sets off for another run to the lake. At the station, Cristian is waiting for the vehicles in parade today and starts the 209 box. I go to take a look at the forgotten Rimessa at the end, which seems to be going to be used, perhaps, by the FBS. In front there is a green 214 Socimi railcar. Returning to ... the hut, I greet Mauro on the street, a shepherd with his ... 500 sheep and his faithful dog Moro: they are in transhumance, from the plain to the upper Seriana Valley, Schilpario, Scalve Valley.