Alessandria-Mortara: vapore con 640.008 + E 428.058

Video from May 15, 1993. Interesting movements at Alessandria station, seen 26 years later when I published these images: lines pass through Milan via Mortara, Turin via Casale and Asti, Savona via Acqui, Genoa via Ovada and via Arquata, Bologna via Tortona, and finally Pavia. Also in motion is the steam locomotive GR 640 008, shunting on the turning triangle, and the imposing electric locomotive E 428 051, first series, is moving to the rear of the historic six-car Centoporte pusher train. An E 636 in Isabella livery is shunting, and an E 636 with 1959-type carriages in gray-beige-liver-red livery is passing. An E 444R in gray-red livery with Gran Confort carriages is passing: it's the IC Massimo d'Azeglio, Rome-Turin. A Caimano E 656 with 1959 liver-gray and red carriages. An original E 633 Tigre with a liver-red baggage car. The time has come for the GR 640.008 steamer: it makes an isolated maneuver and takes over the lead of the historic train "1st Monferrato Food and Wine Train." The engineer is Steam Master Pasquale Labate, the great Black Nose of the steamers. It maneuvers a pair of ALn 668 series 1500, in a gray-blue and parchment-beige livery, with a single central vestibule. A Caimano E 656 with UIC X carriages in a liver-red and beige-gray livery. The historic train sets off; I attempt a car chase that runs aground at Torreberetti at a closed P:L: on the branch line to Pavia. Tigre passes by with 1979-type Casaralta carriages in shuttle livery. I catch up with the historic train at Sartirana station, where the 640 puffs away, with the 428 pulling away. Filming ends at Mortara station, the terminus of this historic food and wine train.