Thomas Nagel

The tourist railroad of the Rhine is a association law 1907 (Alsatian right local obliges), whose seat is located at the station of Volgelsheim in the Haut-Rhin and who gathers about fifty impassioned voluntary members of railroad. Small about fifteen of them are devoted actively to the good walk of circulations. Created in 1982, it was given for goal to restore and give in service of the Locomotives to vapor of the 030TB type in order to make revive with the eyes of the general public environment of the railway voyage of the beginnings of the 20th century in Alsace. With the specimen visible with the tourist railroad of the Fund of Fat, located at Pétange in Luxembourg, the 030TB 130 and 134 are the single machines preserved in operating condition of late network EL (Elsaß-Lothringen), network that Bismarck had developed considerably between 1871 and 1918, when Alsace was Prussian.

The park of engines is not limited to these priceless specimens. It includes/understands six machines with vapor on the whole (Henschel, Decauville) and several power trolleys Diesel (Decauville, Deutz, Vereinigter Schienenfahrzeugbau GDR, Jung) as well as engine A1A-A1A 62029 Baldwin, of American origin.

Circulations bound for the public are organized of at the beginning of May at the end of September, Sundays and bank holidays, like certain Saturdays of July/August. It is about a compound train + boat, in co-operation with the BFS, a German bâtelier just based on the other side of the Rhine, in Altbreisach.

The CFTR is affiliated with the FACS-UNECTO.

See too

List of the tourist railroads of France

External bonds

Official site of the tourist Railroad of the Rhine
Official site of the Federation of the Friends of the Secondary Railroads and the Union of the Owners of Tourist Railroads
Official site (in German) of the company batelière partner of the CFTR
Official site of association " Train 1900" , the network of the Fund of Fat

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