Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum Video

Now, that we have seen the locomotives of the Sibiu steam locomotive museum in detail, let's watch the video overview of the museum:

CFR WMA 65.4 Steam Crane at Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum

In the Sibiu steam locomotive museum there is a big steam crane, the Ardelt CFR WMA 65.4. It is exhibited with the steam locomotives, coupled to the end of CFR 077. Back when it used to function, the crane could lift up to 65 tons.

Facts:

ID: CFR WMA 65.4

Built: 1939

Builder: Ardeltwerke

Lifting capability on big hook: 65 t on 7.5 m long arm

Lifting capability on small hook: 15 t on 9-17.5 m long arm

Top speed with counterweight: 3 km/h

Top speed when pulled: 65 km/h

Gauge: Standard (1435 mm)

Location: Sibiu, Romania (steam locomotive museum)

CFR 077 at Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum

CFR 077 is part of a batch of 42 locomotives designed and delivered to CFR by the A.G. Maffei and Hanomag (Hannoversche Machinenbau AG) factories between 1911 and 1915. 40 Ct-n2 locomotives of this type were delivered between 1914 and 1915. These locos were used to pull passenger, freight and mixed trains on short secondary lines. They were retired from service after 1968. CFR 077 was retired at Ploiesti in 1971 and transfered to the museum in Bucuresti.

Facts:

ID: CFR 077

Wheel arrangement: 0-6-0T

Built: 1915

Builder: Hanomag (Hannoversche Machinenbau AG, Hannover-Linden)

Top speed: 45 km/h

Gauge: Standard (1435 mm)

Location: Sibiu, Romania (steam locomotive museum)

The CFR 077 steam locomotive is now on display in the Sibiu steam locomotive museum, coupled to the CFR WMA 65.4 steam crane. It has not been used for many years but it is in a fairly good shape (not operational, however).

Links:

CFR 077 at www.steamlocomotive.info

CFR 077 at www.infofer.ro

Old picture of CFR 077 at www.cimec.ro

CFR 94.649 at Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum

The locomotives of type Prussian T 16 (later called DR 94) were designed by the Prussian Royal Railways to pull trains on the curvy lines of Turingia. They were tender locomotives with 5 coupled axles. CFR 94.649 (originally named Magdeburg 8110) is part of a batch of 15 locomotives of this type that became property of CFR after World War II. They were captured by Russian troupes in 1949 in Austria and given to Romania as war compensation later. Al tough they were modern steam locomotives, they were assigned to industrial units because of the big weight on axles.

Shortly after their arrival into CFR's park of locomotives, 6 of them were scrapped in 1952. The rest of them were retired and scrapped between 1971 and 1972, except one, the CFR 94.649, which worked in marshalling operations at Grivita until 1988. It was transfered to the Sibiu steam locomotive museum in 1994 and it's exhibited there ever since.

Facts:

ID: CFR 94.649

Wheel arrangement: 0-10-0T

Built: 1914

Builder: BMAG - Schwartzkopff (Berlin)

Top speed: 65 km/h

Gauge: Standard (1435 mm)

Location: Sibiu, Romania (steam locomotive museum)

Obviously not used anymore, the locomotive is exhibited in a nice place at the steam locomotive museum in Sibiu, Romania. It is the sole survivor of its type among CFR's locomotives.

Links:

CFR 94.649 at www.steamlocomotive.info

CFR 94.649 at www.infofer.ro

CFR 388.002 at Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum

This little narrow gauge steamer was built well over a century ago, in 1896 by the Wiener-Neustadt factories for the Sibiu-Agnita railway. Originally named "Segesvár" ("Sighisoara"), it received the circulation number 2. In 1911 in was taken over by MÁV and got the number 388.002, which is still kept today. In 1919 it was taken over by CFR. The little loco serviced the line between Sibiu and Sighisoara until the '60s, when it was retired into the Sibiu train depot. Between 1974 and 1995 it was on display in the front of the People's Council building in Sighisoara. In 1995 it made its last trip between Sighisoara and Sibiu, this time loaded in a standard gauge train car. Since 1995 it is being displayed in the Sibiu steam locomotive museum.

Facts:

ID: CFR 388.002

Wheel arrangement: 0-6-0

Built: 1896

Builder: Wiener-Neustadt

Gauge: 760 mm

Top speed: 30 km/h

Location: Sibiu, Romania (steam locomotive museum)

The locomotive is not in the greatest shape. It could use some painting. A few years ago it looked much better. But at least this one is not crowded between other locos.

Links:

CFR 388.002 at www.steamlocomotive.info

CFR 388.002 at www.infofer.ro

Sibiu to Agnita narrow-gauge railway

CFR 324.951 at Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum

The locomotives of the 324.000 series became the property of CFR after the First World War when Romania received 499 locomotives of this type as war damage compensation. This is a pretty big number, actually it's more than half of the steam locomotives of this type built by MÁVAG. The locomotive factory at Budapest created a total of 905 locomotives of this type between 1909 and 1917 in three variants: compound without superheating, with twin cylinders and superheating, and with Brotan boiler and superheating. The 1C1-h2 type locos were robust and resistent, they included new technologies and they were versatile enough to perfectly satisfy the needs of the Hungarian Railways (MÁV).

The 324.000 series has become the second most widely spread steam locomotive of CFR, after the 50.100 series. Actually, they were very similar from traction power point of view and both types were suitable for all kinds of traction and maneuvers. They had been used for pulling passenger, freight and mixed trains on sections of track with relatively low declivity. Due to their good characteristics, the locomotives of the 324.000 series had been in service for over 7 decades, until the end of the steam era in Romania. Most of them had been retired around 1978. The Romanian engineers and mechanics used to call them "the Hungarian goat" ("capra ungureasca")

Unfortunately, in spite the fact that so many of them existed in CFR's property, only two steamers of this type survived. 324.951 is one of them. It has been working at the Mirsa ballast-pit until 1980, when it was abandoned. After 13 yars, in 1993, it was taken over by the Sibiu depot. It is now on display in the Sibiu steam locomotive museum.

Facts:

ID: CFR 324.951

Wheel arrangement: 2-6-2

Built: 1917

Builder: MÁVAG (Budapest)

Gauge: Standard (1435 mm)

Location: Sibiu, Romania (steam locomotive museum)

The locomotive is in a fairly good shape. It is on display in the Sibiu steam locomotive museum, not used anymore. It's a pity that it's jammed behind the bushes and it can only be photographed properly from one side.

Links:

CFR 324.951 at www.steamlocomotive.info

CFR 324.951 at www.infofer.ro

CFR 324.951 at www.railwayfan.ro

CFR 324.951 at http://forum.lokomotiv.ro

CFR 20.064 at Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum

CFR 20.064 is a special locomotive built in 1924 by Henschel & Sohn (Kassel). It is one of the two fireless locomotives imported by CFR. Instead of using coal, wood or crude oil as fuel, the locomotive can be filled directly with steam and water through the hole located at the front of the boiler. Once filled with steam, the loco could run for as long as 8-9 hours. It was built for special use in places with high risk of explosion (such as ammunition depots, refineries and distilleries).

Its "sister" locomotive is said to be abandoned on a hill near the Constanta train station. The two steamers were used at Chimimpex Constanta and Mararsesti Chemical Factory until 1976 when they were retired from service. CFR 20.064 was donated in 1995 by the Marasesti Chemical Factory to the Sibiu steam locomotive museum and it's on display there ever since.

Facts:

ID: CFR 20.064

Wheel arrangement: 0-4-0F

Built: 1924

Builder: Henschel & Sohn (Kassel)

Gauge: Standard (1435 mm)

Location: Sibiu, Romania (steam locomotive museum)

This interesting steam locomotive is in a fairly good shape, but it is not used anymore, it's simply being displayed in the Sibiu steam locomotive museum. Unfortunately it too is crowded between other steamers. There is no information panel next to it to inform visitors about the special design of the locomotive (as a matter of fact there is no information displayed about any of the locomotives in the museum).

Links:

CFR 20.064 at www.steamlocomotive.info

CFR 131.040 at Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum

The locomotives of the 131.000 series, of type 1C1t-h2, are considered a great achievment of the Romanian railway industry. They have been designed and built entirely by Romanian engineers and technicians. The prototype, 131.001, built by the Uzinele Domeniilor Resita factories, was finished in 1939. Its designers were hoping to create a locomotive that could replace the the 375.000, 376.000 and 377.000 series locos that were servicing the secondary lines of CFR at the time because these were too old, technically outdated, inefficient and not powerful enough.

So was the first 131.000 series steam locomotive born, which had an empty weight of 48.5 t and 61.6 t service weight. It could produce a power of 632 HP and 81 kN pulling power. The optimal speed was 50 km/h but it could reach up to 65 km/h. The main wheels' diameter was 1.2 m and the whole locomotive was 11.87 m long.

The tests proved that the 131.001 locomotive was strong enough and suitable for its purpose, so the Uzinele Domeniilor Resita factories started building more of them. 66 more locomotives of this type were assembled between 1940 and 1942. The total of 67 steamers of this kind got the numbers 131.001 - 131.067. Beginning with 1953 some of them were transformed so that they could also use crude oil as fuel. They were used in the Banat region until 1975 - 1976 when CFR retired them. After 1980 most of them were scrapped, only a few survived.

CFR 131.040 was saved in the last moment by railway enthusiasts. In 1992 it was taken to Arad depot in order to be dismantled, but they rescued it and thanks to them since 1994 it is on display in the Sibiu steam locomotive museum.

Facts:

ID: CFR 131.040

Wheel arrangement: 2-6-2T

Built: 1941

Builder: Uzinele Domeniilor Resita

Top speed: 65 km/h

Gauge: Standard (1435 mm)

Location: Sibiu, Romania (steam locomotive museum)

The locomotive is in a good shape, displayed among others in the steam locomotive museum in Sibiu. Unfortunately it is crowded between other locos and homeless dogs live under it, so it's pretty difficult to even take a good photo of it.

Links:

CFR 131.040 at www.steamlocomotive.info

CFR 131.040 at www.infofer.ro

CFR 130.503 at Sibiu Steam Locomotive Museum

Originally numbered 130.569, this is a steam locomotive of type 1C-h2, which was pretty wide spread in the past among the CFR locomotives. The first 40 locos of this type were bought by CFR between 1911 and 1916. Due to the good results of these locomotives in service, in 1920 CFR ordered another 80 from the Škoda factories in Plzen. They were delivered between 1921 and 1922 and numbered 130.501 - 130.580. Used mainly for pulling passenger trains on lines with low grades, these steam locomotives functioned mostly until the 70s, when they were retired. Rarely they pulled freight trains too because they were powerful enough.

130.569 was first exposed in 1972 when the north station of Bucharest, Romania (Gara de Nord Bucuresti) was 100 years old. Two years later the original 130.503 was dismembered and 130.569 received its number plates. Since 1994 it is being displayed in the steam locomotive museum of Sibiu, Romania.

Facts:

ID: CFR 130.503

Wheel arrangement: 2-6-0

Built: 1921

Builder: Škoda (Plzen)

Gauge: standard (1435 mm)

Location: Sibiu, Romania (steam locomotive museum)

The locomotive is in a good shape, on display in the steam locomotive museum in Sibiu (not being used anymore).

Links:

CFR 130.503 at www.steamlocomotive.info

CFR 130.503 at www.infofer.ro