In the mid 90s, the Austrian Federal Railways dreamed about a uniform fleet of multi purpose locomotives, commonly exploited with German rail operator DB. Part of this fleet would also become available to other operators that could lease or rent locomotive...

Since 1999 Siemens has been building TAURUS locomotives for the Austrian Federal Railways, OBB. Originally 400 machines of the 1016/1116 series were planned, but the market for especially freight operation changed drastically during the first years of the ...

The first-generation Railjets are reversible trains operated by the Austrian Federal Railways, are among the fastest locomotive-hauled trains in the world and have been used on an ever-growing network of the Railjet (RJ) and Railjet Xpress (RJX) train type...

ČD railjet najbrt 2: They are owned by ÖBB and used in front of the railjets: ČD najbrt 2: České dráhy (ČD) acquired its first 1216 Taurus locomotives from the Austrian company RTS in September 2019. These locomotives were subsequently put into operation i...

Like the ÖBB Railjet, the CD-Railjet is a train for IC-like long-distance transport. Outside the Czech Republic, the trainsets are used on the “Vindobona” Berlin - Praha - Graz route. In the Czech Republic, there are individual RJ connections between Praha...