Wood train transport from Romania to Germany done by DB on Czech railways #db #wood #zug #trains

What keeps things moving? In the Romanian north, when winter locks the valleys and snow quilts the spruce forests into silence, the Mocănița still answers the call. Steam blooms against the cold like a defiant flower, iron wheels bite frozen rail, and motion is negotiated inch by inch. This is tourism stripped of gloss, where Romania shows its teeth and tenderness at the same time, and the season does not apologize for being severe. The science is elemental and unapologetic. Combustion bullies w

Too cold to breathe? The Mocănița exhales anyway, a hulking paragraph of iron and rivets writing itself into winter air. The locomotive does not glide, it advances by appetite, coughing smoke like an old philosopher clearing his throat before confessing a truth. Snow listens. Trees hold their breath. Steam flowers briefly, then dies, as fragile as conviction. This engine was never designed for beauty, yet it manufactures it relentlessly. Coal burns. Pistons wrestle gravity. Water mutates into we