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Or rather, minimal railway chronicles No. 71. Diverted trains, square-wheeled coloured palettes and lots of trainspotting from 30 September to 8 October 2021, still a cursed period of covid. Crossing between ALe 582s at the station and then off, a blitz with square-wheeled coloured palettes in Rovato. In Palazzolo we cross paths with ETR 400 FR 1000s, patiently waiting for us. I get off at Rovato; freight trains of Comp. Ferr. Italiana with E 494 231 parade. E 464s with revamped PRs and ... obscenely blinded by graffiti, which are just not ashamed to let them circulate like this and let passengers pick up!! E 464 arrives with PR and Casaralta 1979 semi-pilot at the end. An announcement informs us that on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 the trains of the Milan Verona will be cancelled for scheduled works between Romano and Rovato and will therefore have to travel along the Treviglio Bergamo Rovato (it had already happened on 25 and 26 September, in the previous video. In front of the small liberty station of Rovato Borgo, ex SNFT, passenger traffic suppressed in 2018. It remains as a service siding and in these days glorious ex SNFT rolling stock destined for the oxyhydrogen flame are parked there. It arrives and I take a colored palette ALe 582 with square wheels. Immediately at the window, curtain fluttering in the wind. I get off at Grumello, site of the canonical crossing. I will regret these months en plein air when the sealed ETR 204 Donizetti poppets arrive. In the station, as always, the anarchy of the travellers, with the PL barriers down. Degradation of trains and structures, with the elevators never entered into service and destroyed with stones. Saturday: the Romano Rovato section is interrupted, the regional trains Milan Verona and vice versa are running on the single track of the Bergamo Rovato. Vivalto and MD Medie Distanze, some Mazinga semi-pilots and for everyone the E 464s. Delays of up to an hour or more. Filming at a PL in the countryside: between diverted Regional trains and ALe 582, ETR 400 FR 1000 is running as 8527 Bergamo Rome. Same as Sunday runs. Monday: quarter pass at the private PL next to the noisy A4, with the corner of the ... sunflowers. Then filming at the station: I'm getting fond of these poor little colored palettes ALe 582. with square wheels. From the station I go into the village: the station avenue and at the end the Courthouse, a rationalist work by Piacentini (his are the center of lower Bergamo and Piazza della Vittoria in Brescia. The Castle, a keep from 1080, dominates the courthouse and village. Among ancient parishes and churches, the beautiful parish church from 1720, designed by Gian Battista Caniana, works by Carpaccio, Carobbio, Fantoni; double organ by Serassi. Around, vineyards of Valcalepio. Then back to Palazzolo and finally the countryside.