The STEAM LOCOMOTIVE MUSEUM in Resita (Caras-Severin County, Romania) скачать в хорошем качестве

The STEAM LOCOMOTIVE MUSEUM in Resita (Caras-Severin County, Romania)

Please turn ON English subtitle - Vă rog să activați subtitrarea în limba română! The "Steam Locomotive Museum" is an open-air museum, with free access, located in the Triage area of the Reșita municipality, and is a tribute to the Reșița steam locomotive builders. In the museum, a number of 16 steam locomotives are exhibited and presented through bilingual panels, 13 of which are made in Reșita, two in Vienna and one in Budapest. They are arranged in three alignments. In front are three historic locomotives on their own stands followed by a narrow gauge (760mm) line with 4 "mocanite" and then a standard gauge line (1435 mm) with nine locomotives. Reșița has become a very important European steelmaking center since the 18th century, the steelworks being established in 1771 during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa, the Banat of those times belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1872 in Reșita, as a subsidiary of the Locomotive Factory "St.E.G." from Vienna, the first locomotives are produced. In the museum, on a monumental pedestal, the locomotive "RESICZA" (Reșita), the first locomotive built in Reșita, in 1872 and the first in Southeast Europe, is exhibited. After the union of Transylvania and Banat with Romania in 1918 and the establishment in 1920 of "Uzinele de Fier si Domeniile Reșita" (Iron Plants and Resita Domains - UDR) on the structure of the former "St.E.G." Austrian, in 1925 the production of locomotives resumed, in the park being exposed the locomotive no. 2 with the name "Princess Elena". The production of locomotives has been particularly successful, so that since 1930 the locomotives produced at Reșita and the Malaxa (in Bucharest) cover all Romania's needs, no steam locomotives having been imported. Between 1926-1960, 1207 steam locomotives were built in Romania, representing 10 types for normal line and three types for narrow line. Of these, 797 were manufactured at the Reșita and 410 at the "Malaxa" in Bucharest. In 1960, the production of steam locomotives was stopped, the Romanian industry focusing on diesel and electric locomotives. Steam locomotives operated in the C.F.R. (Romanian Railways) until 1980. Between 1980 and 1998, 98% of steam locomotives were scrapped. Currently, in Romania, on former narrow forest lines, a few "mocanite” still operate, pulling vintage tourist trains.