The CFR Calatori 69 0003-4 seen at Anina

The travel time of the train is a little over 2 hours, but you can't make it under 50 minutes by car either, so it's not actually bad. There is a huge need for the train by tourists, and if there were two roundtrips a day the train could be even more popular. Of course, that will need the current, historic rolling stock to be preserved or steam locomotives to be used. As opposed to that, the current plans of CFR include the full shutting down of the railway by the December timetable change.