Romania: CFR class 60 Sulzer diesel loco on a Slobozia Veche - Urziceni passenger train
Romania: A selection of clips showing CFR class 60 Sulzer diesel loco number 60-0748 working train R8154, the 1855 from Slobozia Veche to Urziceni. All clips recorded 5th July 2015.
Clip 1 - At Slobozia Veche station 60-0748 runs round the coaches ready to work the 1855 to Urziceni.
Clip 2 (0.40) - Departing from Slobozia Veche.
Clip 3 (1.39) - Between Slobozia Veche and Perieti.
Clip 4 (2.24) - Departing from Perieti.
Clip 5 (2.57) - Departing from Fundata.
Clip 6 (3.46) - A view of locomotive 60-0748 seen from the front coach.
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Slobozia is the capital of and largest city in the county of Ialomita county, Muntenia, Romania. The city was built on the remains of the ancient Roman fortress Netindava. Slobozia is the largest municipality in the county of Ialomita, Romania. According to the 2002 census, has a population of 45.891 inhabitants. According to the latest official estimates of the National Statistics Institute, the municipality's population is decreasing.
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Urziceni is a municipality in the county of Ialomita , Muntenia , Romania . It has a population of 15.308 inhabitants. It is a medium-sized city whose main activities are agriculture and services.
The town lies in the west of the county, about 60 km from Bucharest , Ploiesti , Buzau and Slobozia. It is an important road and rail junction: it is crossed by the national road DN 2 , in which the national roads branching Urziceni DN1D (to Ploiesti) and DN2A to Slobozia and Constanta . Also at Arsenal intersecting railroad tracks leading the Făurei Bucharest with one that leads to free and Ţăndărei .
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Căile Ferate Române (abbreviated as CFR) is the official designation of the state railway carrier of Romania. The railway network of Romania consists of 11,380 km (7,070 mi), of which 3,971 km (2,467 mi) (34.9%) are electrified, and the total track length is 22,247 km (13,824 mi), of which 8,585 km (5,334 mi) (38.5%) are electrified. The network is significantly interconnected with other European railway networks, providing pan-European passenger and freight services. CFR as an entity has been operating since 1880, even though the first railway on current Romanian territory was opened in 1854.
CFR is divided into four autonomous companies:
CFR Călători, responsible for passenger services;
CFR Marfă, responsible for freight transport;
CFR Infrastructură, manages the infrastructure on the Romanian railway network; and
Societatea Feroviară de Turism, or SFT, which manages scenic and tourist railways.
CFR Călători, the passenger service division of CFR, operates seven types of passenger train, both on Romania's territory, with rolling stock and locomotives, or internationally, with rolling stock. Also, CFR operates international trains on Romanian territory with its own locomotives. The train types vary in terms of speed and type of rolling stock. In 2010, approximately 58 million passengers have traveled with the company. 10 million travelers have preferred private equity firms in particular on the side lines.
CFR train types are:
Regio (R) -- the trains have assigned numbers from 2000 to 9999
InterRegio (IR) -- the trains have assigned numbers from 200 to 499, 600 to 999, 1000 to 1999 and 10000 to 14999
InterCity (IC) -- numbered from 500 to 599
EuroCity (EC) -- numbered as IC trains from 500 to 599
EuroNight (EN) -- numbered as IC trains from 500 to 599
Special (S) -- tourist trains operated on scenic routes with vintage rolling stock, numbered from S1 to S9
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Sulzer Ltd. is a Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm, founded by Salomon Sulzer-Bernet in 1775 and established as Sulzer Brothers Ltd. in 1834 in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Sulzer developed a series of rail traction engines in the 1930s and 1940s which were used extensively in diesel locomotives in the UK, Europe and South America. A small number were used in locomotives in Africa and Australia. The Sulzer LDA (prefixed by the number of cylinders, and with a suffix related to the cylinder bore) engine was widely used by British Rail. Many were built under licence by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow as six-, eight- and twelve-cylinder form. The twelve-cylinder engine was used in the British Rail Class 47 and several others. The 12LDA28 engine was a double bank engine having, in effect, two six-cylinder engines side by side, rather than a V-type as favoured by many other manufacturers. Sulzer V-type engines for rail use bore the type number LVA (with a 50-degree angle between the banks).
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Transnistria (World War II) | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:32 1 Romanian conquest of Transnistria
00:05:42 2 Status with respect to Romania proper
00:06:29 3 Administrative divisions
00:06:49 3.1 Counties
00:07:28 3.2 Raions and towns
00:11:28 4 Population
00:11:45 4.1 Romanian urban population (December 1941 census)sup[4]/sup
00:11:58 4.2 Romanian population by county (December 1941 census)sup[5]/sup
00:12:11 5 Organization
00:13:19 6 Borders, territory, and administrative hierarchy
00:15:00 7 Air section
00:15:23 8 The Holocaust
00:19:01 8.1 Position of Antonescu government
00:19:31 9 End of Transnistria Governorate
00:22:37 9.1 Reduction of the Transnistria neo-Latin population
00:25:42 10 See also
00:26:24 11 Notes and references
00:26:34 12 External links
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The Transnistria Governorate (Romanian: Guvernământul Transnistriei) was a Romanian-administered territory between the Dniester and Southern Bug, conquered by the Axis Powers from the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa and occupied from 19 August 1941 to 29 January 1944. Limited in the west by the Dniester river (separating it from Bessarabia), in the east by the Southern Bug river (separating it from the German Reichskommissariat Ukraine), and in the south by the Black Sea, it comprised the present-day region of Transnistria (which compared to the World War II whole is only a small strip along the bank of the Dniester) and territories further east (modern Odessa Oblast eastward of the Dniester and southern Vinnytsia Oblast), including the Black Sea port of Odessa, which became the administrative capital of Transnistria during World War II.
In World War II, the Kingdom of Romania, persuaded and aided by Nazi Germany, took control of Transnistria for the first time in history. In August 1941, Adolf Hitler persuaded Ion Antonescu to take control of the territory as a substitute for Northern Transylvania, occupied by Miklós Horthy's Hungary following the Second Vienna Award. Despite the Romanian administration, the Kingdom of Romania did not formally incorporate Transnistria into its administrative framework; the Nazi-friendly Antonescu government hoped to annex the territory eventually, but developments on the Eastern Front precluded it.