The 2-8-4 design was experimentally modified for freight and two of these 2-10-2 
were built by Malaxa Works of Bucharest in 1939 and 1942 respectively. One had 
vanished in 26.10.1945, taken away by the Soviets; the other was photographed 
in July 1968 working a breakdown train near Ciucea, between Oradea and Cluj-Napoca.<br>
The  2-10-2s were in fact a true Romanian design and it is regrettable that the 
outbreak of the Second World War prevented the construction of further engines. 
They were two-cylinder simples with piston valves instead of the poppet valves of 
the 2-8-4s. 
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Photo&copy;: J.B.Snell<br>
Submitted (with permission) by Cornel Misinger(cmishinger@yahoo.com)