The Hohenzollern Locomotive Works (Aktiengesellschaft für Lokomotivbau Hohenzollern) was a German locomotive -building company which operated from 1872 to 1929. The Hohenzollern works was a manufacturer of standard gauge engines and about 400 fireless locomotives as well as diesel locomotives of various rail gauges .
7-726: The company was founded on 8 June 1872 in Grafenberg near Düsseldorf . The firm produced around 4,600 locomotives. After the increasingly critical situation in the German locomotive building industry around 1929 the works was closed in November 1929. The Hohenzollern AG had hoped in vain for follow-on orders for the DRG Class 80 from the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG). Locomotive number 80 030 in
14-463: Is Dampfspeicherlokomotive , meaning steam storage locomotive. Each locomotive had two 2-axle bogies. On no. 1685 only one axle was powered, but on the others, two axles were powered. For an explanation of wheel arrangements see: AAR wheel arrangement . Nos. 1685 and 2107 (both designed for use in mines) had air-cooled condensers to condense the exhaust steam. Hohenzollern supplied a 1,200 horsepower (890 kW ) diesel-mechanical locomotive to
21-715: The Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum was one of the last built by the Lokomotivbau Hohenzollern and is preserved today in photograph-grey livery. The last locomotives left the factory in September 1929; it was immediately torn down. Hohenzollern built a large number of fireless locomotives, including some articulated fireless locomotives with a cab at each end. Hohenzollern's fireless locomotives were unusual in having inside cylinders. The German term for fireless steam locomotive
28-850: The DR in East Germany , post-1945, and 17 to the Deutsche Bundesbahn . They were in service with the DR until 1968. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the last Bundesbahn engine was taken out of service in 1965. Several examples survived in the Ruhrgebiet until 1977 as industrial locomotives with the Ruhrkohle AG . A total of seven locomotives of this class have been preserved: During production of Thomas & Friends ,
35-545: The Russian State Railways in the 1920s. This had a constant-mesh gearbox with an individual electromagnetic clutch to engage each gear. Around the same time, Russian State Railways also took delivery of a 1,200 horsepower (890 kW) diesel-electric locomotive , class E el-2 , designed in Russia by Professor Lomonosov . Work on this locomotive was started by Hohenzollern, but for political reasons, it
42-664: The locomotive factories of Jung in Jungenthal, Union Gießerei in Königsberg , Wolf and Hohenzollern. With the development of the Class 80, a relatively economical and simple locomotive class, it was hoped that the cost of shunting duties would come down. After they had been on duty, prior to the Second World War , primarily in the area of Leipzig (including the shunting of post vans) and Cologne , 22 units went into
49-475: Was later transferred to Maschinenfabrik Esslingen . DRG Class 80 The Class 80 tank engines were German standard locomotives ( Einheitsloks ) with the Deutsche Reichsbahn . They were intended to replace the aging, rickety state railway line engines performing shunting duties in their dotage at large stations. Between 1927 and 1928, 39 vehicles were produced, having been built in
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