The Pegasus was an early, passenger train tender locomotive

Tender locomotive

A tender or coal-car is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing the locomotive's fuel and water. Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, so tenders are necessary to keep the locomotive running over long distances. A locomotive...

 operated by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway or LDE. She was one of the first locomotives to be built in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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History

The PEGASUS was built in 1839, the first locomotive to be built by the Sächsische Maschinenbau-Compagnie in Chemnitz

Chemnitz

Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...

. In 1842, after a long period of trials, she was bought by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Compagnie for 6250 talers. The unusable locomotive COLUMBUS

LDE – Columbus

Columbus was a tender locomotive operated by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway .- History :The locomotive was sent to the LDE on the recommendation of the Saxon consul in the USA. Similar locomotives had already proven themselves on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Columbus was a tender locomotive...

 was used in part-payment. The design of the PEGASUS was based on the English locomotive STURM

LDE – Renner to Greif

The German locomotive series Renner to Greif comprised passenger train, tender locomotives operated by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway .- History :The five locomotives were delivered in 1837 and 1839 by Kirtley, Warrington/England to the LDE...

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In 1862/63 the engine was retired from the LDE.

See also

• Royal Saxon State Railways
  Royal Saxon State Railways
  The Royal Saxon State Railways were the state-owned railways operating in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1869 to 1918...
  
  
• List of Saxon locomotives and railbuses
• Leipzig-Dresden Railway

Sources

• Fritz Näbrich, Günter Meyer, Reiner Preuß: Lokomotivarchiv Sachsen 1, transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen, Berlin, 1983
• Erich Preuß, Rainer Preuß: Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen, transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0
• R. von Helmholtz, W. Staby: Die Entwicklung der Lokomotive im Gebiete des Vereins Deutscher Eisenbahnverwaltungen, 1. Band, 1835 - 1880; Verlag von R. Oldenburg, München und Berlin, 1930

External links

• There is a relevant English-language forum at Railways of Germany