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06/05/2023: Open day at Pistoia DORS (Deposito Officina Rotabili Storici - Depot and repair shop for Historical rolling stocks), managed by "Fondazione FS". Fondazione FS Italiane looks after and manages the Italian State Railwaysâ€™ vast historic heritage: it oversees a fleet of over 400 pieces of historic rolling stock, around 200 of which are in full working order. It also oversees the archives and libraries, both the Pietrarsa and the Trieste Campo Marzio Museums as well as some dedicated Depots (like Pistoia DORS). Locotender 940-008 around the turntable. Class 940, a class of 1'D1' (2-8-2) steam locotender, derived from Class 740 tender locomotives. Class 940 was designed for the Appennine mountain lines, expecially for the Rome-Sulmona-Pescara line, and important coast-to-coast railway that presented steep gradients up to 2,7 %. 50 Class 940 were buil from 1922 to 1924.
Photo by Guido Allieri (guido@allieri.com)

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06/05/2023: Open day at Pistoia DORS (Deposito Officina Rotabili Storici - Depot and repair shop for Historical rolling stocks), managed by "Fondazione FS". Fondazione FS Italiane looks after and manages the Italian State Railwaysâ€™ vast historic heritage: it oversees a fleet of over 400 pieces of historic rolling stock, around 200 of which are in full working order. It also oversees the archives and libraries, both the Pietrarsa and the Trieste Campo Marzio Museums as well as some dedicated Depots (like Pistoia DORS). Locotender 940-026 stabled outside at Pistoia. Class 940, a class of 1'D1' (2-8-2) steam locotender, derived from Class 740 tender locomotives. Class 940 was designed for the Appennine mountain lines, expecially for the Rome-Sulmona-Pescara line, and important coast-to-coast railway that presented steep gradients up to 2,7 %. 50 Class 940 were buil from 1922 to 1924.
Photo by Guido Allieri (guido@allieri.com)

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FS 940 003 stored in Rimini engine terminal in September 1987.
This engine now belongs to a private enthusiasts association (ATSER "Adriavapore") and would probably be restored in the future.
Photo and scan by Jacopo Fioravanti (jacopofioravanti@katamail.com).

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FS 940 030 stored at Pistoia in 1989.
Now this engine is preserved by the railroad museum "MFP - Museo Ferroviario Piemontese" in Savigliano (CN).
Photo and scan by Jacopo Fioravanti (jacopofioravanti@katamail.com).

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FS 940 042 stored at Pistoia in 1989.
This engine was eventually moved to Livorno engine terminal, where it still lays.
Photo and scan by Jacopo Fioravanti (jacopofioravanti@katamail.com).

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Three FS 940 stored at Pistoia in 1989.
Photo and scan by Jacopo Fioravanti (jacopofioravanti@katamail.com).

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940 010 switching coal cars. Around 1960.
Photo by Helmut Klinger, scan by Martin Klinger (http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~mklinger/railway2.html, mklinger@cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de)

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