THE CARPATHIAN TRAM (1873)
When one hears the title "the Carpathian tram" for the first time, imagination involuntarily draws a picture of a red or a yellow tram that we are used to seeing in the streets of large cities. So the question arises at once: how could a tram appear in the Carpathians, a mountainous terrain that is by no means similar to the large city landscape? For what purposes was it left among mountain valleys, rivers and gorges?
In fact, our imagination fails us and nobody left the Carpathian tram in the Carpathians. On the contrary, it turned out to be rather useful in the area it is named after. In fact, it is not a tram in the conventional meaning of the word — "The Carpathian Tram" was actually a network of narrow-gauge railways that has been operating for over a cent
