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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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Hitachi train of Trensurb,
suburban railway in Porto Alegre. Photo by Peter Lais
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VOLTA O TREM
Information Organ of the Association
Friends of Latin American Railways
12th Year, Number 5
31st December 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 January 2009, 13 h 30
at Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus etc. see below)
Actuality from Latin America.
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
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MEMBERS' MEETINGS
on Saturdays:
On 24th January 2009, 14 h 30
at Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus etc. see below):
Actuality from Latin America
On 28 February 2009, 14 h 30
Annual General Assembly and
Slide show by Dieter Hauss,
Railways at Santiago de Chile in the
1980ties.
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
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. THIS TRIP HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO 2009! Details
see under
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/
AIFFLATicketHuancayo.html
FLB IS ONLINE UNDER: www.ferrolatino.ch
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BOOKS ABOUT BRASILIAN RAILWAYS:
Attention please: some titles are
on a
very limited stock, delivery as
long as stock
last, restocking not guaranteed!
Details:
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/
Buecherliste_Lateinamerika.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. Currently AIFFLA helps to get used railcars
(DH1 und DH2) from the Netherlands for Urutren. Cost: almost €2
Million.
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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FLB News
Invitation to
the FLB MEETING on 24th January 2009 at 2.30pm
On the 24th January
2009 the next FLB meeting will take place in Winterthur. Start at 14.30
hours at Restaurant Sternen, Löwenstrasse 4 in Winterthur-Veltheim.
Theme:
Actuality from Latin America.
RESUME OF THE MEETING OF 25TH
OCTOBER 2008
Patrick Rudin presented an interesting slide
show about Panama and Costa Rica. The small locomotives which are pulling
the enormous ocean going ships in and out of the locks are very impressing.
But the other railways in both countries have not been of lesser interest,
especially the Panama Canal Railway and the suburban services of San José
in Costa Rica. We could even appreciate pictures of a real narrow Swiss
mountain railway, in the middle of the Costarican jungle! Peter Koch presented
us current pictures from Ecuador. Furthermore the newest study of Urutren‘s
planned railcar services could be studied.
ITINERARY TO THE MEETING POINT
How to reach Restaurant Sternen:
From Winterthur main station take bus #3
to Rosenberg until bus stop Bachtelstrasse, cross the street crossing and
then go down the Bachtelstrasse. towards Veltheim town centre, go left
into Löwenstrasse, the Sternen Restaurant is just across the street
from a school building.
The Löwenstrasse can be found on the
town map under: http://maps.google.ch/maps?hl=de&q=Winterthur,+Schweiz&ie=UTF8&ll=47.506824,8.724539&spn=0.006682,0.019999&z=16
If you wish to participate, please inform us in advance,
by tuesday at 12 am, 21st October 2008, so that enough seats can
be provided, under info@fahrplancenter.com
or telephone +41 41 832 0134. Thank you.
LATIN AMERICA NEWS
ARGENTINA
After several months of work, SOE (Emergency Operator)
of the General Belgrano freight railway could finally reopen the Salta
- Avia Teraí - Resistencia line, a corridor very important for the
transport of agriculture crops from the North of the country for exportation.
BRASIL
The Brazilian Senate agreed to build a
nation wide railway network, to supplement the existing one, which does
by far not match all transportation necessities of the country.
The most important lines are:
Lengthening the North-South line to Belém
in the North and to Panorama in São Paulo state to the South, reaching
a total of 2760 km.
Construction of a completely new East-West
railway from the Northern coast of Rio de Janeiro state, through Minas
Gerais, Brasília, the South of Goias state, through Mato Grosso
and Rondônia and ending at the Peruvian border in Acre state, in
all 4400 km.
A new line of 750 km from Panorama to Porto
Murtinho in the extreme Southwest of Mato Grosso do Sul state.
A 1500 km long line from the port of Ilhéus
in Bahia state straight to the West to Alvorada in Tocantins state on the
North-South railway.
SUBURBAN TRAIN AT SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO
PRETO
A new railbus, built at Guarulhos (São Paulo),
was presented to the public at São José do Preto. As soon
as a trailer and second railbus will be available a suburban service between
São José and Engenheiro Schmitt (14 km) will be launched.
SUBURBAN TRANSPORT AT CAMPOS
The city of Campos (Rio de Janeiro state) could reach
the necessary agreements so that the suburban service between Campos and
Guarus will now be a permanent service. The trains continue to be operated
by Central and trips are for free.
CHILE
The corruptive railway management of ex-Railway president
Ajenjo has been put at court. Its about missmanaging of several hundred
millions of USD, some Managers received a already a prison sentence of
many years. Furthermore investigations have commenced at Spanish railways
Renfe due to the bad technical situation of the railcars delivered to Chile,
which could often operate for a few months only.
ECUADOR
During the first days of 2009 rail services
between Quito and Latacunga may resume. A personal command by state president
Corrêa was speeding up works after a complete stop during August
2008. On Dec. 20 all people at Quito have been called to clean up the surroundings
of the railway line and to beware of train movements.
MEXICO
IXTEPEC-TAPACHULA
State Railway Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec
FIT is rehabilitating this line which was destroyed by hurricane Stan in
2005. The connection to Guatemala would not be rehabilitated and passenger
service not reinstated.
PERU
Still not confirmed are news that re-gauging of the
Huancayo - Huancavelica railway has been completed. It was reported that
all 914 mm gauge tracks have been lifted at Huancayo and that the line
has been connected to the Central Railway from Lima.
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The PR Manager and the whole FLB
directorate
are extending the best wishes to all
FLB members and readers for a happy and healthy new year.
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