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There were ten of us, all young, and we started by restoring 400 historic trains. Diesel-powered locomotives, steam engines, electric locomotives, the carriages from the 1920s, 30s and pre-war period. Immediately afterwards we started work on the tracks and stations, restoring 1,000 kilometres of lines that were inactive and went through Italy’s most beautiful landscapes. The final stage were the archives and libraries that describe this extraordinary world, a world made of iron, of people, of rails and station masters. A large number of negatives and, above all, photographic plates that we had no idea how to restore. This heritage is now available for everybody, in digital format. The journeys are available on the Fondazione FS website, and all can enjoy the fruit of our work collecting and restoring existing material. That is why it is truly a beautiful Italian story on show in the Royal Pavilion at Milan's Stazione Centrale from the 29th of October to the 23rd November 2023.