FC DE M4C

Machine-translated from the Italian article

The DE M4c.500 railcar is a two-car fixed-formation unit suitable for rack-rail traction, manufactured by Stadler Rail for Ferrovie della Calabria (FdC), used on the Cosenza–Catanzaro Lido railway. The DE M4c.500 is the first narrow-gauge train, moreover a rack-rail one, manufactured by the Swiss company Stadler for the Italian market. Ordered by Ferrovie della Calabria at the end of 2007, the prototype DE M4c.501 first touched Calabrian tracks on 12 December 2009, at the Cosenza depot, where a little over a month later it began trials, reaching Rogliano and San Pietro in Guarano, testing the vehicle's resistance on the steep and winding Sila sections.