LDE – Pegasus

Passenger train tender locomotive

PEGASUS

LDE – PEGASUS

| Type and origin

Builder| Sächsische Maschinenbau-Compagnie, Chemnitz
Build date| 1839
Total produced| 1
| Specifications

Configuration:
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• Whyte| 2-2-2
Gauge| 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Driver dia.| 1,524 mm (5 ft 0 in)
Wheelbase:| ​
• Overall| 2,050 mm (6 ft 8+11⁄16 in)
Boiler:
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No. of heating tubes| 75
Boiler pressure| 4 kgf/cm2
3.9 bar; 390 kPa; 57 psi
Heating surface:| ​
• Firebox| 0.88 m2 (9.5 sq ft)
• Evaporative| 35.5 m2 (382 sq ft)
Cylinders| 2
Cylinder size| 305 mm (1 ft 0 in)
Piston stroke| 457 mm (1 ft 6 in)
| Career

Retired| 1862/63

The Pegasus was an early, passenger train tender locomotive operated by the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company or LDE. She was one of the first locomotives to be built in Germany.[1]

## History

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The PEGASUS was built in 1839, the first locomotive to be built by the Sächsische Maschinenbau-Compagnie in Chemnitz. In 1842, after a long period of trials, she was bought by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Compagnie for 6250 talers.[2] The unusable locomotive COLUMBUS was used in part-payment. The design of the PEGASUS was based on the English locomotive STURM.

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

## See also

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* Royal Saxon State Railways
* List of Saxon locomotives and railbuses
* Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company

## References

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1. ^ Sonderdruck "100 Jahre Haubold", C. G. Haubold, 1937. Seite 13.
2. ^ von Helmholtz & Staby 1930, p. 63.

## Sources

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* Näbrich, Fritz; Meyer, Günter; Preuß, Reiner (1983). Lokomotivarchiv Sachsen 1 (in German). Berlin: Transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen.
* Näbrich, Fritz; Preuß, Reiner; Meyer, Günter (1984). Lokomotiven sächsischer Eisenbahnen, Schnellzug- und Personenzuglokomotiven (EFA 2.1) (in German). Düsseldorf: Alba. pp. 67, 194. ISBN 3-87094-096-4.
* Preuß, Erich; Preuß, Rainer (1991). Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen (in German). Berlin: Transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. ISBN 3-344-70700-0.
* von Helmholtz, R.; Staby, W. (1930). Die Entwicklung der Lokomotive im Gebiete des Vereins Deutscher Eisenbahnverwaltungen, 1. Band, 1835 - 1880 (in German). Münich and Berlin: Verlag von R. Oldenburg.