And now, for our foreign readers, a short report of what happend last week (on 29 of May 2011) in the
Gara de Nord Station of Bucharest. This was one of the biggest events of the year for the train enthusiastycs in Romania:
TransMontana locomotive (also nicknamed "
Hannah Montana" by it's romanian fans), departed from Craiova, the city where
SOFTRONIC company (the constructor) is found. The engine belongs to
Class 48 electrical engines (the newest class in Romania), and it's been numbered as:
91-53 0480 001-3 (
48-0001-3). But the main technical details are already given to you at the beginning of this topic.
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Now I will tell you what happend on 29 of may in Bucharest in the following photo report. The engine is being tested in order to be transfered to the National Railway of Romania (
CFR). The best place to be tested is
the Testing Ring of Faurei (the biggest rail testing polygon in Eastern Europe). Montana to arrive from Craiova to Faurei, had to stop by in Bucharest. In order to achieve this task the mechanicals and the engineers, had to attach the engine in front of a train which comes from Timisoara to Bucharest, via Craiova. So, the engine was coupled in front of the
A 1692 train, a train tracted by the engine Class
41-0889-04 belonging to the
Timisoara Depot.
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About
14:30 P.M. the train arrives in Bucharest, in the main railway station -
Gara de Nord. Here a lot of train enthusiastycs were waiting for Montana to see and photograph. Among them, my friend
Trifu22 broadcasting the event live on the internet through a webcam. The train arrived at the 5th line of the station, and the engine had to be decoupled from
41-0889-0 in order to move to the Bucuresti Calatori Depot were it has been prepared to be attached to another train to Faurei. But let's see some photo's from this event with some new details of the engine.
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And now, let's take a closer and more detailed look, on this new romanian machine:
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Let's look deeper under the engine...
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Let's see now the bogeys and take a closer look to the suspension system:
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An interesting thing: the videocamera which replaces the old rear-view mirror, is placed in the back of the cabin's door:
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Let's return to the bogeys.
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In the next images we will see some other interesting details as it follows:
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About
15:15 P.M. Montana had to leave the Gara de Nord Station and enter to the Bucuresti Calatori Depot in order to be coupled to another train to Faurei. We had enough time to study other parts of this machine.
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We run at the Depot and took some pictures of the locomotive's board. At the end of this short pohoto session, I caught the engine of the next train to be coupled to Faurei: the
R 873 Bucuresti - Galati. The other machine is Class
41-7871-4 belonging to the
Bucuresti Calatori Depot, the main engine of this train which had to become the second untill Faurei.
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About
18:21 P.M. we caught Montana again on the M300 railway, with the
R 873 train hedding to Faurei, via Ploiesti. The average speed on this section is about 140km/h. Let's see this convoy running in the fields. These are the last images tooked by me with Montana, before being tested on Faurei Ring.
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Untill next time, we must leave good bye from it, but not before offering you a new panorama of this new romanian engine:
- Panorama of the TransMontana engine by SOFTRONIC (2) / Foto: Daniel