Steam Locomotive Museum

The museum is located at a railway roundhouse and turntable a short walk south-east of Sibiu passenger station in central Romania. The reinforced-concrete roundhouse curves through 120 degrees and was built for the state railway company CFR (Căile Ferate Române) in 1980. The collection began in 1991 and the site opened to the public in 1994. It includes 30 steam locomotives built between 1885 and 1959 as well as diesel and electric locomotives used in Romania and other equipment such as stream cranes. Some were built in Romania by Malaxa and its nationalised successor the 23 August Works (later FAUR) in Bucharest and at the Domains factory at Reșița. Others came from Budapest, Berlin, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Most have not yet been restored but several are in working order. As well as standard-gauge locomotives there are seven from narrow gauge-railways in Transylvania – known affectionately as mocăniță or ‘mountain-dwellers’.