Those who have travelled to Milan in the past to paint the classic green and whites, may be
pretty dissapointed to know, that these trains are no more. I had noticed over the years less
and less of those classic Trenitalia FS trains, and the bright green FN trains enjoyed over the
last decade, with less and less runners, and every spot being full of these horrible green
double-deckers. I did a bit of reading, and those 2 companies, Trenitalia and Ferrovie Nord
merged to create a single operator for the North of Italy, Trenord. Cleaner, newer trains, more of a
security presence in yards (we saw armed police in one normally chilled spot last year) have
turned the old 464's and co. into relics of the past, think you have to travel south for them now,
but i hear that slowly the private lines and the new trains are flooding italy, after years of poor
service, old, and unbuffed trains, good for the country but not so good for those who have enjoyed
Italys railways and its art for the past few decades.
Summers coming, get out there.
