Starting from 1962, under the direction of Fiat Grandi Motors, various Italian manufacturers made in total 29 new diesel-electric machines for the State Railways FS. The heart of the locomotive was a diesel engine, produced by Fiat under license on a Daimler-Benz project, for just under 600 HP of power. The machines were assigned to the deposits of Venice, Verona, Genoa and Trieste. While the Genoese and Triestine units mainly carried out maneuver services, those of Venice and Verona also carried out trains of light composition, goods and local. In the line service, starting from the mid -seventies, the series was replaced by the most powerful D.345; In maneuvering services, however, these locomotives remained in full activity up to the threshold of the new millennium. With the subsequent.
