Originally Posted by
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The new Swiss/Italian services (I hear, I haven't seen them) are generally individual cars pulled by locomotives; but some new Italian tilting trains (electric multiple-units) are also to be used (starting when?).

If you mean the ETR 610s they are already in service. The ex-Cisalpino services are operated by these ETR 610s or the (older, unreliable) ETR 470s. Both of these are multiple-units - trains are not operated with locomotive-hauled sets.