Local freight train of FS had always a service car, 'bagagliaio' in Italian slang, that housed train officer and all the engineers needed to operate on switches and couplers while collecting/releasing cars at stations on the way.

The type 99.800 was the last of bagagliai built for this specific scope.

I made the usual CAD and printed it at home.

Even though these cars belonged to the freight fleet had a livery 'grigio ardesia' used in passenger trains till the end of the 80's.

This flat car dates to 1929. I liked it for its asymmetric placement of the brakeman cabin.

It has been very simple to make. It is just a single 3D printed part on which the Marklin wheelsets are clipped in.

The paint is the usual 'rosso vagone' from Puravest.

This car was the largest of all 'old' style FS box cars. It was rather unique as at the time of its production, most cars has a sloped roof.

he car is made of a single 3D printed part on which the marklin wheelsets are inserted.

Paint is the usual 'rosso vagone' puravest and aluminium from Vallejo.

I needed a hopper car. I chose this one because of its proportions, which I find very well balanced.

The car is made of a single 3D printed part on which the marklin wheelsets are inserted.

Paint is the usual 'rosso vagone' puravest.

The bar to stretch the tarpaulin is made of brass wire, folded and than inserted in the two sockets at the faces of the car.

I will probably make a version with a tarpaulin.

The tank car made by FS in 1955 was designed for the transport of dense petrol oils. It incorporated the latest design and technology advances of the time. It had great capacity, for the small size, and heating lines to facilitate the discharge of the oil in low environmental temperature.

I dislike everything that is connected to war, so a freight car for armoured tank transport was not in my to-do list.

However, considering that this freight car is meant generally for "exceptionally heavy vehicles" and that I have been asked several times to make this car, I decided to make it when I found the drawings.

It did not come out very well. it was too thin and tended to warp and also, as the bogies are deeply embedded into the girder, it did not work well in sharp bends.

Recently I came back to the model to improve it.

I put a thin beam under the structure and shifted the pivot point of the bogies, so now the model works.

Here (2) is a picture of the first print, roughly painted with a brush, just to make it visible (the plastic I used in the print is semi-transparent)

The nuts are now the pivot point of the bogies (the real bogie centers should be on the thick cross beams)

An here (3) is the bottom with the assembled bogies (fox valley wheels) .

When performing the snake test the wagon now behaves well.

This type of hopper wagons are typically used for the transport of ballast.

As all FS service type wagons they are painted in grey.

Since their production they have been used to form long trains, together with other hopper and bulk wagons, going from the production pits to the stock piles and from there. to the distribution on the rails.

Arnold Siegrist filmed a beautiful steam train with many of these wagons in 1976.

The model is printed in a single print.

In the early 1950 the Union internationale des chemins de fer (UIC) decided to design standard freight wagons that could circulate in Europe without limitations.

A team of designers in Paris and Minden, helped by designers of many other European railway administrations designed 5 types of freight cars:

• box car

• hopper

• short flat car

• long flat car

• reefer

I have decided to model the box car which in Italy is known as Gs type 1957.

Being a UIC project, these cars were present in all European Railways administrations.

The commercial model in Z reproduces the DB version which had metal sheet cladding and ribbed roof. The FS version had smooth roof and wood cladding, as the ones in SNCF, SNCB/NSB, NS and DSB

The model is realised in a single piece incorporating body and chassis.

It is enough to insert the wheelsets in their conical recesses, plug my v3.1 couplers in the buffer flange and the car is ready to be pulled.

Obviously it is better to first paint it with the Puravest rosso vagone and vallejo silver.