[IT / Expert] Trenitalia orders Masaccio BDEMUs from Hitachi Rail

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After Rock and Pop, Italy now also has “the Blues”. This is the brand name of Trenitalia for Hitachi Rail’s single-deck Masaccio units, which can be electric, diesel-electric, and have batteries installed. On the first weekend of March 2022, a Blues train roadshow arrived in Florance, from where it will continue to Reggio Calabria, Palermo, Catania, Cagliari, Trieste, and Rome.

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