Heritage route
Mocănița Huțulca
Moldovița → Argel · Romania
- Distance
- 12 km
- Fastest time
- ~1 h
- Average speed
- 12 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- CFI (Calea Ferată Îngustă)
- Train
- Reșița 764 steam · open cars
- Countries
- Romania
- In service since
- 1888
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Bucovina’s oldest mocănița, laid in 1888 for a Munich sawmill: the Huțulca puffs 12 km up the Moldovița valley behind a Reșița-built 764 steam engine.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 12520011 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
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