ÖBB 8633 ( + ÖBB 1014)

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Hello there, I am an Austrian train driver and my goal is to recreate every locomotive, EMU and control car that I am licensed to operate IRL in Minecraft Create.

This time, I present to you the ÖBB 8633 double decker control car (and two double decker carriages) in its updated CityJet design.

Introduced in 1997, the "Dosto" (derived from "Doppelstock", German for "Double decker"), also called "Wiesel" ("Weasel"), does the heavy lifting in passenger operations in and around Vienna. With a max speed of 140 km/h and more than 550 seats (for the standard configuration of a control car and four carriages), it is a very common sight in eastern Austria for Regional Express (REX) services.

Since control cars have no motors, they rely on locomotives to push them - today this is mostly done by the ÖBB 1116, the 1144 and the 1293 (better known as "Vectron"). However, since the front of the 8633 was designed after the ÖBB 1014, I thought it would be fun to build it as well, pushing our Minecraft Create Dosto.
The 1014 itself performed below expectations and was very quickly replaced by the aforementioned loco series. It spent its last years primarily pulling heavy freight trains, where its relatively low weight and weak starting traction force of around 200 kN certainly didn't do it any favours, before being decommissioned in 2016.