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Cronache minime ferroviarie N. 77, from 20 to 25 November 2021. The video begins with the Institutional Train 96131 Milan-Paratico with the GR 640 143 and the D 445 1001 at the end, a historic steam train, which arrives in Palazzolo sull'Oglio on Saturday 20 November 2021 (so it is not a Sebino Express). During the maneuvers of the GR 640 143 to get to the track for Paratico, Eng. Luigi Cantamessa, General Director of the FS Italiane Foundation since 2013, entertains the guests of the historic train. They are tour operators from Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, etc. With his friend Marco, a quick blitz in Paratico to precede the arrival of the historic train. Waiting for steam, here is INSERT 1: the first train with which, two friends and I, reopened with the GR 940 022 the Palazzolo Paratico railway closed to passenger service. It was a great day for us, that 26 May 1991. In the insert: manoeuvres of the locotender 1-4-1 940 in Palazzolo. Then I follow it on its journey to Paratico, at almost no distance, on board the 245 with a big fork that normally runs freight between Palazzolo and Paratico. Then the manoeuvres of the 940 in Paratico and it goes as far as the lake, crossing the PL Monto on the 245 and this time we precede, by a few metres, the 940 on its return journey to Palazzolo. Here is INSERT 2, year 1990: the manoeuvres of the 245 in the Rivatica yard with the landing stage for the wagons to and from Lovere. The tugboat arrives with the barges lined up on either side. The surprising all-manual maneuvers to dock the barges at the landing stage and then move them, one at a time. The 245 back and forth with the wagons that it removes and then puts on the barges. End of insert 2. Ok, I'll continue with the present, Nov. 25. 2021: the historic train arrives in Paratico with the D 445 1001 at the head and the GR 640 143 behind. The carriages maneuver head to tail and the 640 moves to the head on the Palazzolo side for the return, the 445 at the tail. Filming in the cabin of the 640. The train is composed of: 2-axle baggage car Di 92031 year 1934, 2-axle third class Corbellini Ci 35653, followed by two other 2-axle Corbellini, then the magnificent carriage 010 Vfrz, ex Rete Adriatica, which was equipped in 1933 as a brake tester. Next to the historic train, I visit the large HO model that reproduces the Paratico station and yard (construction by Bramante Model & Service srl of Somma Lombardo). Now INSERT 3: carriages for demolition set aside in Paratico, March 16, 1990: unusual presences. Then the filming moves on to my daily trainspotting 2021, with the morning quater passes. Filming between Grumello and Palazzolo: the TC, Tavolozze Colorate trenord ALe 582, always and again protagonists on the Bergamo Brescia. Continue ...