Voice problem! At Leipzig, the steam pipe was exchanged on Wednesday evening. It is now available as an alternative with the voice of the Lößnitzgrundbahn locomotive Laut.
Dresden – Steamer “Leipzig” (built in 1929) has a voice problem: The 92-year-old’s steam whistle is broken. Help came on Wednesday evening: the old lady is now sounding instead with the voice of the Loessnitzgrundbahn locomotive.
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Donor organ from the loessnitz dachshund: Jens Dittrich (left, 36) and Heiko Werner (38) complained about the replacement horn on the “Leipzig”. © Norbert Neumann
The pipe of the “Leipzig” in front of the wheelhouse suddenly spat water and steamed without being asked. This is dangerous: the steamer then drives as if through clouds of fog, visibility is restricted – especially in the dark.
The White Fleet turned to the Sächsische Dampfeisenbahngesellschaft mbH (SDG). “We have loaned the historic Lößnitzgrundbahn reserve whistle to the White Fleet,” said SDG spokeswoman Kati Schmidt.
The exact age of the pipe for VII-K steam locomotives is not known. It is not the first time that the locomotive whistle has turned off steam on the steamer. The “Meissen” also needed the loan voice at one point or another.
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The locomotive whistle was installed on the “Leipzig” on Wednesday evening. The White Fleet is doing everything in its power to give the “Leipzig” its own voice back soon. Because on September 4th, the old lady is supposed to “sing along” to the first Dampfer Symphony, as part of the concert of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra on the Elbe.
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Steamer symphony composer Andreas Gundlach (46) remains calm in the event that the “Leipzig” whistles in the locomotive position: “That way, we would even have a historic railway voice among the paddle steamers.”
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