Romanian Railways - Preserved Steam

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Romania has significant collections of standard gauge steam locomotives at a variety of depots - notably at Sibiu, Dej, Ploiesti and Iasi. These depots also stable working locomotives for special trains. Others are kept at Arad and in Bucharest. In some places you may find locomotives as static exhibits or semi-derelict locomotives. For example Subcetate still has a number of the former Floridsdorf rack locomotives in addition to a few others and a steam crane. As these become reported we will begin to list them on our pages.

The considerable collection at Sibiu became the Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum in 1994.

At Resita you will find a static museum of historic steam locomotives in a park environment

    Steam Locomotives preserved or still remaining in Romania:
A Prussian P8
locomotive 230.516
waits to depart Cluj at the head of scheduled passenger train to Ciucea in October 1998 - the locomotive was on a test run having just emerged from the works.

The Romanians have an active programme of restoring old steam locomotives to form the basis of a nostalgic fleet used for special events and chartered trains for enthusiasts.
Rack locomotive 40.001 - one of 7 constructed in 1908 for the Caransebes to Subcetate Railway. They were used on the steeply graded rack section over the Portile de Fier Pass until 1978.
At least 6 of these locomotives are still in existence, 4 at Subcetate, 1 at Sibiu Museum and this one, photographed in 1998 at Petrosani
151.002 - one of two heavy freight locomotives built by Malaxa at the beginning of the Second World War.
These represented the most
powerful steam locomotives used in Romania.
151.002 is preserved as a static exhibit at Dej near Cluj-Napoca

(photo:Radu Bellu)
231.065 - one of Romania's famous Pacifics. This locomotive is preserved as part of the working steam fleet.

Photographed at Simeria in 1996

(Jim Ballantyne)
Sibiu Railway Museum:
Locomotive 388.002,was built by Wiener Neustadt in 1896 for the narrow gauge Sighisoara to Sibiu line
150.1062 is a German 2-10-0 "Kriegslok". This locomotive, which now stands out of use at Sighet, was built to the Russian broad gauge of 1524mm and was used on the dual gauge line between the USSR (now Ukrainian) frontiers atValea Vinului and Câmpulung la Tisa in the Maramures
142.072, one of Romania's famous 2-8-4 express passenger locomotives, based on the Austrian class 12. This one is preserved as a static exhibit at the Resita Museum
Golsdorf designed Class 50 0-10-0 locomotive
with a special train on the Oravita to Anina railway
in south western Romania

(photograph: Jim Ballantyne)
Ghost train! Hidden away in a shed behind the railway museum at the side of the Gara de Nord in Bucharest is this small forestry locomotive - 763.106, built by Budapest in 1907, worked at Crusovat along one of the tributaries of the Cerna river