TVRM's odd train!

Industrial Oddity ranks with a "What were they thinking". Ugly as hell but interesting!

Thanks for posting it.

Whatever it is it's European, I read the nose badge but I forgot..it's like German or something.

Hubby says it's French and he says it has a FIAT badge on it.

Look's like a Fiat Railcar to me. The grill in the front is a dead ringer for the grill in a Fiat "Topolino", a small economy car, which was very popular with drag racers in the "altered" classes back in the '60's

Look's like a Fiat Railcar to me. The grill in the front is a dead ringer for the grill in a Fiat "Topolino", a small economy car, which was very popular with drag racers in the "altered" classes back in the '60's

Look's like a Fiat Railcar to me. The grill in the front is a dead ringer for the grill in a Fiat "Topolino", a small economy car, which was very popular with drag racers in the "altered" classes back in the '60's

Look's like a Fiat Railcar to me. The grill in the front is a dead ringer for the grill in a Fiat "Topolino", a small economy car, which was very popular with drag racers in the "altered" classes back in the '60's

This is an automotricci (RDC or doodlebug) of the FS
(Italian State Railways) in the standard color scheme used at least through the end of the 1950's and possibly later on nearly all of their passenger equipment except for their Breda TEE trains which were red and cream and their exotic Settebello trains of 1953. Most of the regular passenger cars were painted the dark brown up to the window band and tan from there up to the roof. The roofs were generally silver. The locomotives were painted much like the pictured vehicle-tan with brown trim. I never saw an automotricci like this one before; the ones I saw when my family vacationed there several times in '57-'59 were much more modern looking. The FS had a large and very interesting variety of electrics then including some that were articulated. There was no particular type that was pretty much standard in one type of service like the Pennsy GG-1's. As a dedicated 11 year old with a new 35 mm, I managed to get slides of every type I saw in service. Sadly, they weren't developed in mounts but, rather, in strips and I have yet to view them. I have, however, watched my Dad's movies which included several types.
FS was a fascinating railroad and visible from most of the beaches we occupied when not at the station or trackside. On time performance did not seem to be a priority to FS in those days.

That's what happends when you put a bus on rails.