FLB
Friends of Latin American Railways
PR-OFFICE: Samuel Rachdi, Bahnhof,
CH-6422 Steinen SZ; Tel. +41/41/832.01.34;
Fax +41/41/832.01.35
Email: info@fahrplancenter.com
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Modernised train at a modernised station
of the northernmost subway of Brasil in Teresina/Regional State of Piauí
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VOLTA O TREM
Information Organ of the Association
Friends of Latin American Railways
12th Year, Number 2
06th April 2008
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FLB NEWS
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FAHRPLANCENTER NEWS
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THE NEXT FLB EVENTS
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FLB COMMITTEE MEETINGS
on Saturdays:
On 24th May 2008, 13 h 30
NEW AT Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus etc. see below)
On 25th October 2008, 13 h 30
at Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus etc. see below)
On 24th January 2009, 13 h 30
On 28th February 2009, 13 h 00
Board members may participate in any
case
regardless if they are participating
at the
main meeting or not. Please inform
us!
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THE
FAHRPLANCENTER ONLINE:
www.fahrplancenter.com
Calls for meetings, orders etc.
may also be made by email:
info@fahrplancenter.com
FLB IS ONLINE UNDER: www.ferrolatino.ch
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MEMBERS' MEETINGS
on Saturdays:
On 24th May 2008, 14 h 30
NEW at Restaurant Sternen,
Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus etc. see below):
Slide show by Stefan Wölfli
Actualities from Bolivien
On 25th October 2008, 14 h 30
at Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus etc. see below):
Slide show by Patrick Rudin
Actualities from Costa Rica and Panama
On 24th January 2009, 14 h 30
Theme not yet fixed
On 28 February 2009, 14 h 30
Annual General Assembly and
Slide show by Dieter Hauss, Brasil
100 years Lima – Huancayo
Incas del Peru offers a superb rail
voyage through Peru. By train from Lima to Huancayo, then to Huancavelica,
Cuzco - Machu Picchu, Cuzco - Puno, museum tram Barranco, suburban railway
Lima, car barn visits, etc. Details see under
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/
AIFFLATicketHuancayo.html
The International Co-operative for
the Development of Latin-American Railways AIFFLA has now been working
for nearly two years. Up to know AIFFLA was heavily dependent from its
mother organisation FLB. This should change now. Buy AIFFLA bonds and help
to make AIFFLA independent and powerful. AIFFLA is already working. In
Uruguay the organisation was helping Urutren to buy a rail bus. In Brazil
AIFFLA will help restoring a Locobreque of the former São Paulo
- Santos funicular railway as soon as a financing and work plan has been
established. For more information look at
www.aiffla.com
Bonds for CHF50.00 and CHF100.00 are available
in unlimited quantities. Orders may be placed at: FAHRPLANCENTER, S. Rachdi,
Bahnhof, CH-6422 Steinen SZ, info@fahrplancenter.com
, your order will be forwarded. Interested customers in EU countries may
pay to a German account, excluding high international money transfer rates.
Thank you for supporting AIFFLA.
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Needed:
FLB needs a new
PR Manager. For details about this job, ask by email at info@fahrplancenter.com
You’ll find more details in next Volta o Trem.
BOOKS ABOUT BRASILIAN RAILWAYS:
Attention please: some titles
are on a very
limited stock, delivery as long
as stock last, restocking not guaranteed!
At Fahrplancenter; Prices excluding
postage and packing:
THE NITRATE RAILWAYS COMPANY LIMITED
by Donald Binns; on 100 pages with more than 130 photographs and pictures,
as well as some technical drawings, some area maps etc., describing the
history of the numerous railways in the Iquique area in the north of Chile
and casting a special eye on the locomotives. Beside the Nitrate
Railway are also described some narrow gauge lines (2ft6in): Agua Santa
Railway, Junín Railway and Patillos Railway Text in English,
few pictures also in colour. CHF59.00 / €39,35
EL FERROCARRIL OESTE SANTAFECINO
Subtitle: Carlos Casado y la colonización
de la Pampa, Tomo 1; by C. A. Fernandez Priotti; 303 p.; This book deals
mainly with the colonisation west of the city of Rosario (in the province
of Santa Fé) during the 1880 years and the influence which the construction
of the railway line Rosario - Villa Casilda played. The book contains few
b/w pictures, but much detailed text, tables on the cost and receipts of
the railway, but also of the general economy, development of the population,
specimen of the timetables, fares etc. Extension of the railway line,
maps from those days; there is however NO railway technical information
(about line construction and vehicles). Text in Spanish.
Price CHF60.00 / €40,00
Details:
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/
Buecherliste_Lateinamerika.html
A SERVICE OF FLB
In co-operation with the FAHRPLANCENTER.
all timetables of passenger trains
from Mexico to Argentina, now on one single home page, go to:
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/FahrplanLatino.html
AND CLICK ON THE COUNTRY YOU LIKE.
In Deutsch; In English; En Castellano;
Em Português-Brasileiro
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FLB News
Meeting of 1st March 2008
On March 1, 2008
the Annual General Meeting was held at Winterthur. It was for the last
time the meeting was in the East of the city. Future meetings will be in
a Restaurant very close to the "birth-place" of FLB, also still at Winterthur.
The official part passed by very quickly. The existing directorate was
re-elected. Finances: FLB will again buy bonds at a value of CHF5'000.00
from Co-operative AIFFLA. This sum will be set aside by AIFFLA to help
the ABPF Brazil project to rehabilitate a former São Paulo - Santos
Locobreque at Paranapiacaba, as soon as the detailed project will be available.
The publication fund received another CHF1'000.00 for future book production
by FLB. After the AGM we enjoyed a slide show presented by Mr Dieter Hauss
from Frankfurt. This time he showed us pictures from the Chilean city of
Valparaíso, with its spectacular funiculars, American and Swiss
trackless trolley coaches and the then colourful suburban trains. No pictures
from this city without its buildings and the port. Thank you Mr Hauss.
The final part was a dinner at the future meeting point, the Restaurant
Sternen at Winterthur-Veltheim.
NEW MEETING POINT
With the move abroad of former chairman
Peter Lais, the rental fees for the rooms at the Gutschick-Mattenbach community
centre have risen substantially. Furthermore cleaning the room took some
time for some of the participants. Many other locations presented the same
inconvenient situation. When looking around for a new meeting room, Ms
Iran Bodenmann-Meli offered us to meet at her Restaurant Sterner. The restaurant
consists of two open rooms, so we can’t say now, if it will be the best
solution for meetings and slide shows. Therefore we could fix the
next two meetings there. If the Sternen will not be suitable, we
have the possibility to meet at another Restaurant, close to the same bus
stop as for Sternen, less than 5 minutes away. In any case we will continue
to go to the Sternen for dinner after the meetings.
How to reach Restaurant Sternen?:
From Winterthur main station take bus
No.3 to Rosenberg until bus stop Bachtelstrasse, cross the street and then
follow Bachtelstrasse towards Veltheim town centre, turn left into Löwenstrasse;
the Sternen is just across the street from a school building.
LATIN AMERICA NEWS
BRASIL
Mato Grosso do Sul regional state is now finally
backing theTrem to Pantanal. Operation may start in 2009 between Miranda
and Aquidauana with a weekly trip in each direction. In a second stage
the train may be prolonged to Campo Grande and not later than 2011 it may
also reach Corumbá. In contrast to other tourist trains, Trem do
Pantanal will be a mixed one with coaches for tourists and economy class
coaches for social trips of the inhabitants of the municipality served
along the line.
CHILE
On February 7, 2008 ACCPF, the Chilean Railway
fans association, operated for the first time the rail bus t-1024 over
the 268 km Coquimbo - Vallenar section of the metre gauge Northern Line.
The 12 hour journey was free of any problems. Since this line is used by
just 2 freight trains every 3 months, ACCPF seeks to operate regular tourist
trains over this line in the future.
MEXICO
The city of Monterrey plans to develop 80
km of existing rail tracks around the city to create a suburban rail network.
A similar network may also be built around the city of Guadalajara.
The federal governmentwill invest
MXN (New Peso)700m to repair the hurricane damaged Ixtepec - Tapachula
railway; a small amount of this sum will be used for repairs of the Coatzacoalcos
- Mérida line. Both Chiapas - Mayab lines will be operated by the
federal government for an undetermined period.
URUGUAY
Urutren, the AIFFLA supported Production Co-operative,
is officially rehabilitating a Ganz-Mavag locomotive on behalf of state
railways AFE.
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