Brenner Railway is situated at the border between Italy and Austria and also the operational border between the ÖBB and FS networks. The two companies operate different electrical systems, (15,000 V AC at 16.7 Hz in Austria, and 3,000 V DC in Italy), which requires a stop to change electric locomotives. For this reason, for a long time the operation of express trains from Munich to Verona and Milan was carried out with diesel railcars. Until 30 May 1965 was also needed a second engine change in Bolzano station, as the Bolzano–Brenner section still operated under three-phase AC electrification. In recent years
Wendy Brenner Wendy Brenner Wendy Brenner is an American author and professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Brenner is the author of two books, the first of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as "Allure", "Seventeen", "Travel & Leisure", "The Oxford American", "The Sun (magazine)", "Ploughshares", and "Mississippi Review", and have been anthologized in "The Best American Essays", "Best American Magazine Writing", and "New Stories From the South", as well as other anthologies. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts