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The goals and the objectives of the 1000er-Club is to secure the financing for the total restoration of the most powerful

Narrow gauge - Cog wheel – Steam – Locomotive

in Europe (possibly the world) and to have them in operation with the other original locomotives of the Furka – Oberalpbahn (FO) and the Visp- Zermattbahn (VZ), now the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn (MGB) on the tracks of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway) over the Furka pass between Realp - Gletsch - Oberwald in Switzerland.

Between 1920 and 1930 the Swiss Locomotive- and Machine Factory in Winterthur (SLM) produced the so called "Vierkuppler" (four coupled axes) for the French colony Indo-China (now Vietnam). Some Swiss steam engine enthusiast repatriated these locomotives after the line was abandoned because of the Vietnam war.

These locomotives are a unique testimony of Swiss engineering knowledge.

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