The CFR Calatori 641 363-2 seen between Negreni and Ciucea
The collapse of the Magyar Keleti Vasút (Hungarian Eastern Railways) was quick: their initial overuse of capital because of the badly selected construction company meant all later investment and loan was useless, so when the construction budget ran out for the second time the state quickly payed the banks and nationalised the railway even before the missing Cluj-Razboieni and Campia Turzii-Turda sections could be built. It became part of the Hungarian State Railways in 1878.
Photo by Takács Bence
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