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 Railways’ 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).

Beautiful restored FS "Ferrovie dello Stato" steam locomotive 746-038, from a Class of 1'D1' (2-8-2 Mikado) train locomotives.
Long preserved in the FS workshop of Verona, the machine has been recently moved to Pistoia to await a possible restoration in working condition.

Class 746 wre the biggest locomotives ever built for the FS, even though not the fastets, which was Class 691.
40 locomotives Class 746 were ordered to Ernesto Breda, which produced them from 1922, followed by 10 more machines in 1926.
Class 746 initially operated along the Milan-Bologna-Florence-Rome-Naples main line. When main lines were mainly electrified, Class 746 were transferred to the Adriatic coast and in Sicily, to be retired by 1967.

Photo by Guido Allieri (guido@allieri.com)