3273 ROMANIA - Second Train Postcrossing Meetup, Bucharest-Ploieşti, 24 February 2018

3273 The third postcard of the series
"100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (3/12)
- The electric-diesel locomotive 92 53 0 641179-2

The previous postcard of the series "100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (2/12)

The third meeting of the Romanian postcrossers in the year of the Centenary of the Great Union took place on February 24, 2018, and was actually the second train Postcrossing meetup between Bucharest and Ploieşti (the first took place on February 29, 2016). On the postcard is the 6-axis electric-diesel locomotive 92 53 0 641179-2 (GM 1179), considered the most beautiful locomotive of the Sibiu depot, and nicknamed the Blue Fury.

Initially belonging to Class 63 (the modernized version of Class 62, realized by Electroputere Craiova and ElectroMotive-General Motors Corporation, in the years 1999-2000 - power 2100 hp, length 17 m, maximum speed 120 km/h, traction force 275 hp), was modernized and assigned to the Class 64, without having any connection with the former Class 64, represented by LDE 1500 type locomotives built by the Faur plants in Bucharest.

At the initiative of Mihnea Răducu, between December 1 2017 and December 1 2018, so in the year in which the Romanians celebrated the centenary of the Great Union, took place every month a meeting of the Romanian postcrossers, and at each meeting has been edited a postcard to recall this exceptional event for the Romanians. 

The next postcard of the series "100 years since the Great Union of Romania" (4/12)

About the stamps

The stamps are part of the series Fire Weapons from the National Military Museum, designed by Mihai Vămăşescu and issued on February 8, 2008. This philatelic issue is a première: it is for the first time when on the postage stamps of a Romanian postage stamps issue are illustrated pistols and revolvers.
• the Four barrels flint pistol, made in Western Europe in the middle of the 18th century (0.50 RON) - It's on the postcard 3273
• the Flint pistol, made in Liège at the end of the 18th century (1.00 RON) - It's on the postcard 3273
• the Mannlicher carbine pistol model 1903, 7,65 mm caliber (2.40 RON)
• a 1915 Revolver, 8 mm caliber (5.00 RON)

Sender: Dănuţ Ivănescu and the Romanian postcrossers who participated to the second train Postcrossing meetup between Bucharest and Ploieşti, which held on February 24, 2018.
Sent from Ploieşti (Prahova / Romania) on 24.02.2018
Edited by Postcardsmarket - 100 years since the Great Union of Romania - Series 3/12