LDE - Columbus
| LDE - COLUMBUS | |
|---|---|
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Gillingham & Winans , Baltimore |
| Year of construction (s): | 1835 |
| Retirement: | 1842 |
| Type : | B n2 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1220 mm |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 254 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 610 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 4.9 atm |
| Number of heating pipes: | 400 |
| Heating pipe length: | 965 mm |
The Columbus was a tender locomotive of the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie (LDE).
history
The locomotive came to the LDE on the recommendation of the Saxon consul in the USA . Similar locomotives had proven themselves there on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad . (see Tom Thumb ) It was built in 1835 by Gillingham & Winans in Baltimore / USA.
In the LDE's annual reports, the locomotive is later described as unreliable and unusable . Several attempts to return the locomotive to the manufacturer failed.
In 1842 the locomotive was traded in when the PEGASUS was bought by the Sächsische Maschinenbau-Compagnie in Chemnitz . Their whereabouts are unknown.
literature
- Fritz Näbrich, Günter Meyer, Reiner Preuß: Lokomotivarchiv Sachsen 1 , transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1983.
- Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Saxon State Railways . transpress Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
- R. von Helmholtz, W. Staby: The development of the locomotive in the area of the association of German railway administrations . Volume 1: 1835-1880 . Published by R. Oldenburg, Munich et al. 1930.