No, under Mussolini the trains did not run on time. Mussolini lied.
And Hitler had Germans murdered in their sleep. What do you think they would do with Americans?
Hittie (may I use a term of endearment?) wasn’t the only one there.
Not to deny that Mussolini lied but in this case it was the old trains schedules that lied. He did indeed make the trains run on time but he did it by a very simple trick. If the 10:12 train always arrived 30 minutes late (and it did) he just changed the schedule to read 12:42. The trains still took the same time to arrive but no one was waiting for it to arrive as 10:12.