FS ALe 426/506 TAF "Treno Alta Frequentazione"
The first Italian double-decker electric train
The TAF was born in the late 90s and represents the first passenger train purchased by the new Trenitalia administration as well as being the first vehicle released in XMPR.
The construction of the TAF is the result of a consortium participated by Firema, Ansaldo railway construction, AdTranz, ABB etc.
At the time, the train had excellent acceleration for the times, and managed to have excellent capacity in the busy nodes, in fact it saw and still sees a massive presence in the nodes of Naples, Rome, Turin and Milan.
It was also acquired by Ferrovie Nord Milano, where the tractors were registered as EA761 and EB760 instead of ALe 426 and 506, while the trailers became EB 990 instead of Le 736. type ATR 95 already at the beginning of 2000, while Trenitalia, after experimenting with it, abandoned the idea of using the ATR 95, all the TAFs of FNM merged into Trenord in 2011, together with some Trenitalia vehicles, the latter run as Trenord 2xx to differentiate from FNM trainsets.
Between 1999 and 2011 some TAF wore the Malpensa Express livery, before the introduction of all CSA.
11 different compositions of the taf in the various liveries it wore in its 25 years of service:
FNM
FNM (traditional and single arm pantograph) – from 1998 to 2006
MPX (traditional and single arm pantograph) – from 1999 to 2011
LeNord – from 2006 to 2011
Trenitalia
XMPR (New and Old Logo) – 1998 to 2014
DTR – since 2014
Trenord
Trenord (traditional and single-arm pantograph) – since 2011
Thanks to RaptorArk for the help given during the realization of this mod, and for authorizing me to use the models of his pantographs.
