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Foundation is born FS Italian
the objective is to value and to preserve historical, technical, ingegneristico and industrial the patrimony of the group Italian Railroads of the State
March 6, 2013
Italian railroads of State (FSI), Trenitalia and Italian Railway Rete have agreed the constitution of Italian Foundation FS with the scope to value and to preserve the inestimable historical, technical, ingegneristico and industrial patrimony of the Italian railway group. The three societies of group FSI will confer to the baby Foundation about 200 rotabili of the "operating historical park", constructed in the first half of the ‘900 and still working, beyond 50 historical means not in exercise guarded in the railway national Museum of Pietrarsa let alone the entire libraria equipment and archival of the group.
"The objective of the Foundation FS Italian - it has explained the railway group - is not that to celebrate the past, but to give impulse in the Country the rediscovered one of the history of the national railroads disclosing of the culture, valuing National the Railway Museum of Pietrarsa, an one of a kind museum structure, organizing the activity of historical-tourist trains. Thanks to the staff highly specialized, the Foundation will moreover put on hand the expertise of the group on aspects of "industrial archaeology" that in Italy no other railway enterprise is able to put in field. Particularly important will be the management of the historical archives: thousands of relative issues of cartographic and photographic character to projects of bridges, railway galleries and lines; designs, projects and photographic images of locomotives and historical vehicles; the greatest photographic collection and audio-video - also cinematographic - of railway topic present today in Italy. Collection, this last one, than already in 2000 has received the acknowledgment of the ministry of Beni Culturali".
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Italian railroads of State (FSI), Trenitalia and Italian Railway Rete have agreed the constitution of Italian Foundation FS with the scope to value and to preserve the inestimable historical, technical, ingegneristico and industrial patrimony of the Italian railway group. The three societies of group FSI will confer to the baby Foundation about 200 rotabili of the "operating historical park", constructed in the first half of the ‘900 and still working, beyond 50 historical means not in exercise guarded in the railway national Museum of Pietrarsa let alone the entire libraria equipment and archival of the group.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
