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Steeple-cab locomotive #998
29 september 2008 - Bucuresti, Romania – Uzina de Reparatii Altelierele Centrale (‘URAC’). This is an amazing place - the RATB central bus and tram workshops. Here they do everything, from building new vehicles, to repairs and overhauls, to scrapping. Many of the buildings were originally built for horse trams. Three little tram shunting locomotives are used to move vehicles around the site – the staff call them ‘donkeys’, which is quite a good description for the work they do.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Steeple-cab locomotive #998A
29 september 2008 - Bucuresti, Romania – URAC. The green ‘donkey’ standing outside the main tramway overhaul workshops. The underframes of these three locomotives are based on old tramcars – there are several flat trucks around the site with identical features and I suspect these were 1920s Thompson type 4-wheelers, withdrawn in the early 1970s.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Steeple-cab locomotive #998B
29 september 2008 - Bucuresti, Romania – URAC. To complete the set, here is a picture of ‘donkey’ 998B, which was standing inside a shed on the day I visited. I don’t know the precise history of these locomotives, but they have been around for some time and were presumably built here from tram components. They don’t venture out of the works complex.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
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