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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: fahrplancenter@fahrplancenter.com
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Ferrocarril Toco - Tocopillo, North Chile, above Tocopillo
(Photo: Patrick Rudin)
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VOLTA O TREM
Information Organ of the Association
Friends of Latin American Railways
15th Year, Number 1
14th February 2011
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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 19th November 2011, 13 h 30
at Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus 3 etc. see below)
On 04th February 2012, 13 h 30
at Restaurant Friedtal, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus No. 3 from Railway station Winterthur
in
direction Rosenberg as far as
Bachtelstrasse stop),
the restaurant ist just at the bus
stop
Preparation of the Annual General Assembly
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
The offical home page of FLB is
under:
http://www.ferrolatino.ch
and NEW also under http://www.ferrolatino.com
The official home page of AIFFLA
is under http://www.aiffla.com
Calls for meetings, orders etc.
may also be made by email:
fahrplancenter@fahrplancenter.com
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MEMBERS' MEETINGS
on Saturdays
On 26th February 2011, 14 h 30
at Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus 3 etc. see below)
Slide show by Ulrich Meier, Bolivia,
Peru and Ecuador
On 19th November 2011, 14 h 30
at Restaurant Sternen, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus 3 etc. see below)
Thema to be announced, proposals invited
On 04th February 2012, 14 h 30
Annual General Assembly
at Restaurant Friedtal, Winterthur-Veltheim
(Bus No. 3 from Railway station Winterthur
in
direction Rosenberg as far as
Bachtelstrasse stop),
the restaurant ist just at the bus
stop
101 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
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FOR BOOKS ON LATIN AMERICAN RAILWAYS
PLEASE CONSULT:
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/
Buecher-Lateinamerika.html
FOR TIMETABLES ON LATIN AMERICAN RAILWAYS
PLEASE CONSULT:
http://www.fahrplancenter.com/LatinoIndex.html
Co-operative
AIFFLA
In 2010 the International Co-operative
for the Development of Latin-American Railways AIFFLA is already four years
old.
Up to now AIFFLA is still 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.
Buy bonds to make AIFFLA strong and
independent. For yourself or as a gift to friends and relatives who like
Latin America and railways.
AIFFLA has already helped in Uruguay
with the purchase of a rail bus for the co-operative Urutren. Urutrain
is a co-operative which has been founded in the spirit of AIFFLA.
In addition AIFFLA has accepted to contribute
to the reconstruction of a Locobreque of the old São Paulo - Santos
incline, as soon as a corresponding financing and work plan has been established
These are only two activities; more
will follow soon.
Inform yourself on the home page www.aiffla.com
There are bonds of CHF50.00 and CHF100.00
which can be acquired in unlimited quantities. The co-operative is established
according to Swiss law. Co-operative bond holders are only liable to the
sum of bonds acquired and not any further.
Orders may be placed at:
FAHRPLANCENTER, S. Rachdi, Bahnhof,
CH-6422 Steinen SZ, fahrplancenter@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 INTERNALS
ITINERARY TO THE MEETING POINT
RESTAURANT STERNEN
FOR MEETINGS FROM APRIL 2009 ONWARDS
How to reach Restaurant Sternen:
From Winterthur main station take bus No.3
towards Rosenberg, get off at the bus stop Bachtelstrasse, go across the
street crossing and then go down along Bachtelstrasse towards Veltheim
town centre, turn left into Löwenstrasse, and 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
FLB AGM
The Annual General Meeting was held
on February 5, 2011 at the Restaurant Friedtal at Winterthur. All passed
well. There was one discussion about a change in membership fees for people
in the Euro Zone, because of the high Swiss currency, but we refused to
do it. After the AGM Mr. Schneider from Germany presented us pictures from
the Colombian Railway Scene and a collection of pictures from around the
continent with a main emphasis on Brasil.
MEETING of
Saturday, 26th February 2011,
at 14 h3 0
Ulrich Meier will show us slides from
Bolivia, Peru Central Railway in 1970 and 2003 and from Ecuador, together
with the presentation on Feb. 05 and this of Nov. 13, 2010 we will complete
a round-up over most Andean Railways
MEETING of
Saturday, 19th November 2011, at 14
h 30
This date was fixed at the AGM; we will
then probably watch the movie on the Chilean Railways which will be produced
in February/March 2011 by the German TV station SWR for ARTE.
LATIN AMERICA NEWS
ARGENTINA
More railcars of the Apolo type reached Costa Rica,
to be used soon on the line to Belén.
BRASIL
Passenger numbers between Belo Horizonte and Vitória
increased by more than 10% in 2010 and the line transported clearly over
1 million passengers.
The 4 Ganz-Mávag train sets, built in the
1970s, which are running suburban trains at Teresina are about to be completely
rebuilt at Fortaleza for BRR6 million.
CHILE: New Earthquake
On February 11, 2011 a new earthquake of magnitude
6,8 was registered in the Concepción region. Fortunately no one
was hurt. FESUB had to withdraw train services to Lomas Coloradas for 24
hours to fix up track geometry and to control the bridge over the
Bio-Bio River. The other lines suffered a two hour interruption because
an electricity overhead line was broken.
COSTA RICA
More railcars of the Apolo type reached Costa Rica,
to be used soon on the line to Belén.
CUBA
Local passenger services are well performing in different
regions. Around Habana services to San José de las Lajas, Rincón,
Artemisa and Batabanó have been reinstated, respectively confirmed.
The Las Tunas local service between the West and the East of the city has
a relatively large stock of railcars and is operating at full swing. Bayamo
region (Granma province) has also many operating local services. Reconstruction
of the Habana - Santiago de Cuba main line is going ahead with more and
more sections back to 120 km/h operation every month.
ECUADOR
Train traffic over the Devil’s Nose section resumed
early February with three departures daily except Monday from Alausí
to Sibambe and back.
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