Piko Hobby model & the real thing at Passau (March 2004)

WLB currently (January 2005) have five Taurus locomotives on lease:

ES64U2 020 LZB number 182 520-7. Built October 2002 by Siemens, München. Painted in WLB house colours, and wrongly labelled as 182 520-2 (changed December 2002). Delivered to WLB November 2002. Kühne and Nagel logo added to bodyside December 2002 (the only loco with this addition).

ES64U2 021 LZB number 182 521-5. Built November 2002, Siemens, München. Delivered in Dispolok house colours (full yellow ends, silver sides with yellow areas at ends) From 15 December 2002 delivered to NNVG to work the Flensburg - Hamburg service (FLEX) after DB Regio cancelled the service. Worked on the route until 12 August 2003, when NNVG petitioned for bankruptcy. The route was taken over by NOB, part of Connex. Loco was returned to Dispolok October 2003, being replaced by Connex-owned class 185 locos. The loco was rebranded in WLB house colours and leased to them from November 2003.

ES64U2 022 LZB number 182 522-3. Built November 2002 by Siemens München. Delivered to Dispolok in CargoServ grey and yellow liveryin December 2002, it was named "erz-her-zog", and used on the company train between Steyerling and Voest-Alpine in Linz - CargoServ is part of Voest-Alpine. In January 2004 021 exchanged lower frame-end panels with loco 081, resulting in the loco having yellow frame ends instead of grey. However, less than a month later, the engine was returned off-lease after 080, and 081 (which are radio-control fitted) were delivered and tested. 022 was repainted in the WLB livery, and placed on lease with them in March 2004.

ES64U2 024 LZB number 182 524-9. Built January 2003 by Siemens München. Delivered in standard Dispolok livery, it was hired out to Karsdorfer Eisenbahngesellschaft GmbH (KEG) for use on fuel oil and aviation spirit trains. In June 2003 the livery was changed, adding KEG logos and additional yellow angled stripes, and painting the roof areas turquiose. KEG filed for bankruptcy in February 2004, when the loco was returned to Dipsolok. Repainted in WLB colours, the loco was sent on hire from September 2004.

ES64U2 027 LZB number 182 527-2. Built February 2003 by Siemens München. Delivered to Dispolok in Silver and Yellow livery. Short term hire between May and August 2003, to TXLogistix, covering for ES64U2 030 which had been returned for software upgrades. In August 2003, repainted into WLB livery, and delivered.

They are used on Wiener Lokalbahn private train services for businesses anywhere in Austria, having received certification in September 2001. They currently operates on container and semi-trailer service between the Wien Container terminal and Disbar, Germany via Linz. Freight connections have been established between Wien and Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, whilst onward connections exists at Disbar for Holland, Belgium, northern France and Great Britain.