Builder: mnemocron
Region: Europe & Middle East
Category entered:
Year entered: 2026
Brand of building bricks used:
Mixed brands
Since 2026, the Brick Train Awards have accepted models created with other LEGO®-compatible construction brick systems.
About SBB LRZ (Swiss Rescue Train) by mnemocron
Truly not your average commuter train. This custom Windhoff constellation is used by the Swiss national railway company as a tool to fix smaller and larger problems on the rails. Everyday tasks include: towing broken down trains, rerail derailed wagons, picking up tree branches along the tracks and 24h stand-by duty for serios incidents. Since it is such a Swiss Army knife of capabilities, I submit it to the Best Other Locomotive.
I am not the first one to build this train. But my little sister recently joined the ranks of rail-borne firefighters and drives one of these bad boys. So I was motivated to build her a train for her office desk. She happily invited me to the base and gave me a tour of the real thing. This is also where I took most of the pictures (I did not blindly step onto the tracks). By now the whole team of my sister must have their own brick built version at home.