Roof-riding in the Bucharest suburbs was normal between 1945-1968; ticket collectors 
seldom climbed up there, having a good sense of self-preservation. But 25 kV overhead 
wires stopped the practice soon after July 1968 -the month when the photograph was 
taken. 230.244 - one of the 350 locos built new by  Romania between the wars - is 
seen with a crowded service train in mid-Summer 1968 on Bucharest-Titu-Pitesti route.
<p>
Photo&copy;: J.B.Snell<br>
Submitted (with permission) by Cornel Misinger(cmishinger@yahoo.com)