Anton Elbel (6 January 1834 – 3 October 1912) was an

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n engineer and locomotive designer.

Biography

Anton Elbel was born in

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on 6 January 1834 and attended the

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there. In 1856, he started work for the Carinthian Railway (''Kärntner Bahn''). When this was absorbed by the

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, or ''Südbahn'', he transferred with it and worked in the ''Südbahn'' design office in Vienna from 1860 to 1867. Following that he was the inspector of general operations for the construction of the Hungarian Western Railway for several years. From 1872 to 1892, he worked for the Austrian Northwest Railway, finishing as central inspector and

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of the design office. Together with Louis Adolf Gölsdorf, he designed the ''Gepäcklokomotive'', an economical form of locomotive with a luggage compartment that saw service on several

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railways. He died on 3 October 1912 in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Elbel, Anton 1834 births 1912 deaths Engineers from Austria-Hungary Austrian railway pioneers Austrian railway mechanical engineers Scientists from Vienna TU Wien alumni

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