The Wunderlok: Miniatur Wunderland sends a locomotive across Europe
For its 25th anniversary, Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg has come up with something special. After a colourful S-Bahn train, a lorry and a named ICE, a brightly designed freight locomotive now runs on real European rail lines. It arrived in Hamburg on 10 August 2026.
The locomotive is a Bombardier TRAXX F140 AC2 of class 185.2, with operating number 185 666, and belongs to the operator Lokomotion. It was designed by Lokomotion and the Railcolor design team together with Wunderland. It was freshly wrapped in late July 2026 in Kufstein, Austria, before delivery.
In everyday service it hauls ordinary freight trains and links cities including Munich, Cologne, Bremen and Hamburg. Its main territory is the Alpine corridor over the Brenner axis, and it covers around 180,000 kilometres a year. Founder Gerrit Braun formally sent it on its way together with the people from Lokomotion, after it had travelled through Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to the Billwerder terminal.
What I like most is that this one-of-a-kind locomotive exists not only in real life but also as a 1:87 scale model on the Wunderland layout. The real engine and its miniature complement each other, and railway fans can now keep an eye out for this rare sight on the routes between Germany and Austria.
Source: Miniatur Wunderland
The locomotive is a Bombardier TRAXX F140 AC2 of class 185.2, with operating number 185 666, and belongs to the operator Lokomotion. It was designed by Lokomotion and the Railcolor design team together with Wunderland. It was freshly wrapped in late July 2026 in Kufstein, Austria, before delivery.
In everyday service it hauls ordinary freight trains and links cities including Munich, Cologne, Bremen and Hamburg. Its main territory is the Alpine corridor over the Brenner axis, and it covers around 180,000 kilometres a year. Founder Gerrit Braun formally sent it on its way together with the people from Lokomotion, after it had travelled through Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to the Billwerder terminal.
What I like most is that this one-of-a-kind locomotive exists not only in real life but also as a 1:87 scale model on the Wunderland layout. The real engine and its miniature complement each other, and railway fans can now keep an eye out for this rare sight on the routes between Germany and Austria.
Source: Miniatur Wunderland
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