What do you get
if you add these together ?
A fully operational wood burning paddle
steamer
able to sail on three Swiss lakes !
ADVANCE INFORMATION
Special Steam Train from Basel to Yverdon and return
on Saturday 12th February 2005
(also conveying the Maffei paddle steamer engine
on the
final part of her journey from Rotterdam to Lake Neuchâtel)
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At a press
conference on Thursday 1st July 2004
the
Trivapor organisation
announced it had acquired the original Maffei steam engine
from PS Ludwig Fessler
(Lake Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany)
which was replaced with a diesel-hydraulic engine in 1973
It is currently located in Rotterdam and Trivapor
plan to
bring it to Switzerland and install it in the former
PS Neuchâtel which
has been
out of operational service since 1969
By October, the appeal to raise money for the purchase
of the engine had reached 100,000SF
but more is still needed if the target is to be reached
by next January
when it is hoped to move it to Switzerland
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Click here for a new interesting article
(in French)
by Andrew Thompson
about the builder
Maffei of Munich
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Click here to find the latest official news
(in French) about this exciting project
The influencial committee from the four cantons involved, with your help, could see an operational
paddle steamer in service on the Jura lakes as early as
2007
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Photo: William M. Worden
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26th November 2004
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John B Bird
