eurovapor stands for the Europäische Vereinigung zur betriebsfähigen Erhaltung von Dampflokomotiven und historischem Eisenbahnmaterial' which means 'European Society for Preservation of Working Steam Locomotives and Historic Railway Stock'.
Its aim is not merely to preserve steam locomotives and historic wagons as museum exhibits, but to restore the vehicles and to operate them as a living witness to a bygone technological era.
By the end of the 1970s, eurovapor had procured, with the assistance of the Genossenschaft der Dampflokfreunde (GdF) larger locomotives as well, like the DB Class 23, no.
The vehicle fleet since 1987 has comprised 15 steam locomotives, a diesel railcar, a railway crane and 60 wagons.
In the meantime the sections have partly been made largely independent, in order to divide responsibilities better and to make it easier to be able to achieve charitable status in each country.