Snapshots taken during Bucharest Life’s winter holiday in Bansko, Bulgaria.
Besides offering decent skiing, Bansko also has a great little mountain railway that runs from Septembri up to Dobrinishte: it is one of the most picturesque runs in the country.
And the sturdy locomotive that serves the route three times a day?
Made in Romania.
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Actually the former “23 August” factory changed it’s name into FAUR S.A. and it still exists today and it’s a quite succesful entreprise.
The trams that you see in Bucharest were made there
Funny that it would use a capitalist/imperialist language – English – to indicate origin, while writing the factory name and Bukarest in German.
We used to make good quality things in the 70′s
Actually this particular locomotive was made in 1988 – I cropped the pic wrongly so you can’t see the date that well. Point is Romania did use to make and export things of decent quality. It wasn’t all crap.