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San Vincenzo station
We do not see the traveling building of the station of San Vincenzo but the limestone cart of the Solvay company. Solvay is a chemical industry, from the limestone of the hills above San Vincenzo it produces many chemicals, the best known is Solvay bicarbonate. The limestone is extracted in San Carlo, by means of cableway it is transported to the station of San Vincenzo, with the use of a loader the limestone is loaded into the railway wagons, which are then taken to Rosignano Solvay where the processing plant is located. Since 2009 the wagons have been loaded into the San Carlo quarry.
Work of the model maker Serafino Casella.
For needs of location in the exhibitions we have reduced the length of the station from its real size. However, we have kept the entire railway track between the industrial area and the FS area.
The pedestrian overpass that crosses the station and connects the high town to the low town on the sea stands out.
The railway crossing was made fully functional, and as then with triple transit and relative closure of the railway crossing for 40 minutes.
It took a number of working hours. Like all things, I always say that the appetite comes with eating and we made the movement of the gate arm, self-managed by the convoy in transit to and from the station, we added the light signal, the bell, the stop & go of the cars.
In the station of San Vincenzo we have 5 signals of which only 1 is a bridge on the 3rd track on the south side exit. The others are normal, 1 on the north side on the 3rd with a white triangle, 1 round and 1 square towards the north, 1 round and 1 square towards the south, these of commercial buildings since they reflect the real.
The bridge signal on the 3rd is self-built, not available on the market.
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