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Video, or rather: document from February 9, 1991. Images recovered from the old VHS tape that is now grainy and makes the images jump. Replaced the copyrighted background music that I used at the time (the videos were for me ...); above them I reread the original texts of the time. With a friend, in the car, on a cold winter morning, for a meeting in Bolzano with the GR 685 196 steam train. On the way, shots from the A 22 Brenner motorway, near Mezzocorona, with the crossing of electric trains on the Trento-Malé metric gauge line (see: ''In the ET 11 Stanga Tibb cabin on the Trento Malé in 1991'' and also ''When trains passed through Ceraino: ETR 450 and Tigri'' from 1995 and I'll also include: ''Bolzano Merano Val Venosta, Laces: steam 1990''). Shots from the overpass that passes over the FS. In Bolzano, the EC Eurocity Leonardo da Vinci Milan-Dortmund is the backdrop to the GR 685 196 which is manoeuvring to get back in front of the train to Verona. The chase begins. The speedometer in the car reads 130 km/h; we struggle in the traffic and with the winter conditions of the road after the snowfall to keep up with the pace of the historic train. Which has an exuberant E 636 at the end, in theory 120 km/h, which should heat the carriages but in practice it pushes and pushes too much and we are downhill. The wild ride ends in the fields near S. Leonardo. The 685 stops in the fields. A bushing of the 2nd axle is melted due to overheating; we will have to continue, pushed by the E 636, at 25 km/h. And so on up to Peri where the 685 has stopped many times to refill its water supplies during its services. The 685 moves to the 1st track. The first class Marco Polo Rapido, Bolzano-Rome, with ALe 601 passes slowly on the third. The 636 passes in front and leaves with the historic carriages for Verona. The 685 returns, isolated and slowly, to Verona. Tac tac, tac tac, the classic noise of a broken bushing. Now it is very easy to follow the 685 in line ... The video ends with the classic shot in the Ceriano Gorge (a section that will soon be decommissioned due to the constant risk of landslides on the tracks) ... see you soon and in good shape, 685 196 Queen of locomotives !!