RailAdventure

Transfer of passenger carriages by the locomotive 139558-1 from Rail Adventure

The 103 222 from RailAdventure

A Finnish Sr3 broad gauge locomotive at the InnoTrans 2016 in Berlin on yellow Loko Buggies from RailAdventure

The Rail Adventure GmbH is a German railway company , based in Munich district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg .

history

RailAdventure emerged in 2006 from the world record project . With a Taurus locomotive of the Siemens ES64U4 series , a world record was set with 357 km / h, which was also entered in the Guinness Book of Records . The company has existed as a limited liability company (GmbH) since 2010 .

Fields of activity

Areas of activity are in particular individual train journeys. This includes test and transfer runs of new rail vehicles , the towing and transfer of wrecked rail vehicles and, since 2019, the rental of the Luxon saloon car , a modernized observation car from the former set of the Rheinpfeil .

vehicles

The company's vehicle fleet consists of various electric and diesel-electric locomotives, purchased or rented, among others. a.

• 103 222, class 103 of the DB
• 111 082, 111-210, 111 222 and 111 225, class 111 of the DB
• 139 558, class 139 of the DB
• 183 500, Siemens ES64U4 series , rented from MGW Service
• Re 620 003, a prototype of the Re 6/6 series of the SBB
• 4185 006 and 4185 011, DE18 series , from Europorte France
• 365 221, class V 60 of the DB

as well as various, converted wagons, etc. a.

• a plurality of converted old VTG - Fährbootwagen type Habfis, used as a combined protection and coupling carriage ( screw coupling / Scharfenbergkupplung )
• several former DB - Rungenwagen SFPs used as barrier wagons and as ballast cars
• several converted former DB rail mail wagons type Dmz, used as combined protection and coupling wagons (screw coupling / Scharfenberg coupling)

The company also owns Loco Buggies in order to be able to transfer narrow and wide-gauge vehicles to standard gauge , such as locomotives for the Finnish State Railways with a gauge of 1524 mm from Bavaria to Finland.

literature

• to: From the Dom Car to the Luxon . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2019, pp. 240–243 (241).
• Marco Völklein: The art of bringing a locomotive to Finland . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 24, 2016; accessed on May 10, 2019.

Web links

Commons : RailAdventure  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Individual proof

Individual evidence

1. ↑ to: From Dom Car to Luxon .
2. ↑ to: From Dom Car to Luxon .
3. ↑ Luxon - Heavenly prospects for your trip . (Homepage).
4. ↑ https://www.loks-aus-kiel.de/index.php?nav=1411567&lang=1&id=89638&action=portrait
5. ↑ Völklein.