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Or Cronache ferroviarie minime N. 72, from 10 to 14 October 2021. I start with transits of ALe 582, more or less TC Tavolozze Colorate, at a private PL in the countryside in my morning quarter passes. The ALe 582, on the tracks since 1987, still have a monopoly on the Bergamo Brescia. In the afternoon a blitz in Milan. I leave the methane wheelbarrow in the convenient Cascina Gobba park, green metro line M2, station on the viaduct. I get off at Porta Genova, but I don't go there for the station of the same name destined for future decommissioning, I go there for the Naviglio Grande and the Darsena. On the Naviglio the Alda Merini bridge, dedicated to the poet who lived a few steps from the bridge. Alda with whirling thoughts; I quote passages from her poems. Like: ''The best revenge? Happiness. There's nothing that drives people crazier than seeing you happy''. I return to Casina Gobba with a Leonardo of the M2. and I return to the hills and wine slopes of my village, in Valcalepio ... with the (dis)services and the 'reliability' of trenord on sight. Always at a private PL, shots of ALe 582, Then to a PL with bars and in the station of the village: Coloured palettes galore. Brief blitz at the windows of ALe 582 in Chiuduno, FV a whole mural of regularly authorised street art of a railway nature. I appreciate it. ETR 400 FR 1000 8508 Rome Bergamo passes. I return with another ALe 582 but I don't get off in the ramshackle Grumello. I continue, at the windows with fluttering curtains, my symbol of travelling in freedom, up to Brescia. Off to platform 16 and 3/4 where traps are parked. At the end is ALn 668 3221 (Fiat Ferroviaria 1982), in the lead is ALn 668 3206 (Fiat Savigliano 1981). They stop in the yard and then reset on track 16 and 3/4. The E 494 021 Mercitalia passes by. The beautiful Tigrone E 652 168 passes by, alone. Another Tigrone arrives: E 652 256. ALe 582 arrives from Bergamo. On track 14, the traps ALn 6681205 (Fiat Ferroviaria 1979) and ALn 1242 (Omeca from 1980) arrive late from Parma. Ale 582 leave for Cremona. I quickly take ALe 582 and return to the village. Shooting in the countryside, at another of the three private PLs that still resist in just over a km. Then at another, and always for the exhibition of the TC Coloured Palettes, the resilient ALe 582. But patience is needed, with the Trenord delays. In the afternoon I go to Brescia with revamped PRs ... brandishing the video camera blindly from the hole of a vasistas. In Rovato, patiently waiting for the crossing, the ETR 400 FR 1000 for Bergamo. At the Rovato Borgo yard, work is underway on the brand new MOBILE (!!) hydrogen storage, maintenance and refueling system for the new trains that ... will come. On the line we cross E 483; at Ospitaletto we take off E 494. In Brescia off in leaps and bounds to platform 16 and 3/4 and off with the 10831 traps for Parma. Continue ...