A ride with the narrow gauge train (mocăniţa) would be a perfect combination with a visit to the castle. Not to mention at the end of this narrow gauge line at Govăjdia is the oldest blast furnace conserved. It was the most modern blast furnace in Europe for smelting iron ore for it’s era. Most of the cast-iron parts made here are in the structure of the Eifel Tower in Paris. Today is a historical monument and open for visitors. Even if the line would cost a lot to be rebuilt, for now the former railway bed could be transformed in to a bicycle trail. In the future the railway could be rebuilt to serve a tourist and recreational train. The line would make a spectacular connection between the tourist objectives: Corvin’s Castle of Hunedoara, blast furnace of Govăjdia, and the iron ore mines of Ghelari.
The mayor of Ghelari Ion Bulbucan admits that the Govăjdia village would had a different fate if the blast furnace here have been exploited for tourist purposes. The mayor says that next year they will start to renovate the entire structure, including the roof. Only the narrow gauge train (mocăniţa) is missing: “I can only imagine how nice it would be to have the narrow gauge train on tracks here again. but it costs a lot for us to rebuild the entire line. Even so a ride with this narrow gauge train along some girls dressed in traditional woodlander’s (pădureni) dress, giving woodlander’s pies with a cup of “Vinars” would worth every penny.” Ion Bulbucan says that the dismantling of the line Govăjdia to Hunedoara took place in 2000-2001 after the Austrian authorities who built and maintained this line sent a letter to the romanian authorities announcing the expiration of the 100 year warranty for the metallic bridges. This announcement was used as an excuse to scrapp the entire railway by the last owner Talc-Dolomită company.
