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The Cosenza-Paola railway: history and technique through photos and models
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VERSIONE ITALIANA
Rende (Cosenza) - With the patronage of the City of Rende and the collaboration of the Santa Chiara Water Park, the Cultural Association FREMO-Calabria "Nino Caldarella" organizes for the afternoons between 12 and 21 December 2019 - from 16:00 at 20:00 the exhibition "The Cosenza-Paola railway: History and technique through photos and models".
A significant part of our layout will be on display: a modular system according to FREMO in a 1/87 H0 scale extended over 56m and entirely dedicated to the Calabrian railways: Cosenza-Paola, Cosenza-Sibari, Sibari-Reggio Calabria (Jonica) as they were at the turn of the 60s and 80s of the last century. On this occasion the focus is obviously on the station of Rende, central point of a "mini" system extended for about 20m with the possibility of admiring as many as 65m of rails immersed in the Calabrian landscape.
Our collection of historical photographs will also be exhibited.
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The poster
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The event aims to:
keep alive the memory of an infrastructure that at the beginning of the last century broke the isolation of the populations of the Valle del Crati compared to the North-South route that ran along the Tyrrhenian Sea;
to highlight the technical characteristics of a work that had every right to survive according to the current guidelines of soft mobility and the enhancement of industrial archeology;
show to the public of Rende a faithful reproduction, even if necessarily incomplete, of the historic cogwheel line that crosses the territory of our municipality with extensive modeling work for about 20m and that we have so far carried around Italy to favor a positive vision of our territory, its products, its tourism capabilities;
illustrate to young and less young people the techniques and aims of our vision of modeling combined with the historical as well as geographical knowledge of our territory and its riches.
The structure that hosts us is easily reachable from the avenue Francesco and Carolina Principe.
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Satellite view courtesy of Google Maps of the structure that hosts us
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