straphanger,
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#Italy is running lovingly-restored trains on historic routes, with some excursions going for as litle as €20.

In the high-speed era, it's a way of keeping less frequented rural routes alive.

I took the train from #Turin to the wine-making village of Spumante...🚂🧵

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I rode in hundred-year-old "centoporte" (100-door) carriages, through vineyards and past Romanesque church steeples...

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...while getting lessons on Italian rail history from well-informed conductors.

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You can even ride on the Arlecchino, a streamlined 1960s beauty that makes the #Milan - #Brescia run.

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