E646 FS locomotive
Source: Wikipedia
The E.646 are a group of articulated electric locomotives for passenger trains commissioned by the Italian State Railways in the late 1950s and withdrawn from service in 2009.
The E.646 immediately proved to be perfect machines for the mobility needs of the era in which they were designed, that of the economic boom: powerful (4320 kW absorbed per hour) and fast (140 km/h) like no other Italian locomotive existing at the time, their performance on the plain was 900 tonnes at 130 km/h. The E.646s were assigned to the longest and most important routes in Italy at the time, such as the "Freccia del Sud", and operated rapid passenger trains on all the most important routes in the country until the first E.646s were put into service. 444 and E.656.
