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Romania Locomotives and Rolling Stock
Claiming to be the world's largest exporter of railroad
cars,
Romania sold roughly 70 percent of its output to foreign
clients
during the 1980s, and during the 1970-84 period it
exported more
than 100,000 freight cars, 3,000 passenger coaches, and
1,500
locomotives. The Soviet Union bought the lion's share,
including
the entire output of 70-ton and 105-ton freight cars. The
August 23
Machinery Plant in Bucharest, the largest manufacturing
facility in
the country, was a major producer of diesel-electric
locomotives
and railroad cars. Other important plants were located in
Craiova
in Olt judet, Arad, Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Caracal,
Iasi,
and several other cities. In the mid-1980s, a large new
plant was
built at Caracal to produce grain cars for export to the
Soviet
Union in exchange for electricity.
Data as of July 1989
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