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Maschinenfabrik Christian Hagans (Christian Hagans Engineering Works) was a German locomotive manufacturer founded on 1 July 1857 in

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000. It lies in the wide valley of the Gera (river), River Gera, in the so ...

, Germany, by Christian Hagans. By the mid-1860s, the company had started building locomotive

boilers A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, central ...

and other components; in 1872 the first

locomotive A locomotive is a rail transport, rail vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. Traditionally, locomotives pulled trains from the front. However, Push–pull train, push–pull operation has become common, and in the pursuit for ...

followed, a

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engine for a

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of 750 mm. As a result of shortages of space, Hagans often had to limit its operations. For example, the T 15 was built by

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because Hagans did not have the necessary capacity. In 1903 the factory site was moved to Ilversgehofen north of the city; only then was large-scale production possible. On 30 June 1915 the locomotive factory was sold, with effect from 1 April 1916, to the ''Maschinenbau R. Wolf Magdeburg-Buckau''. In 1928,

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manufacture finally came to an end in Erfurt. By then Hagans had built 1,251 locomotives. The last Hagans engine was a DRG Class 64.

Hagans locomotive

A type of

articulated steam locomotive An articulated locomotive is a steam locomotive (rarely, an electric locomotive) with one or more engine units that can move independently of the main frame. Articulation allows the operation of locomotives that would otherwise be too large to ...

is named after Hagans. It had two groups of coupled wheels that moved together and which were connected via swinging lever system (''Schwinghebelsystem''), so that the locomotive managed with one pair of

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. Examples are the Baden VIII d, the Prussian T 13 and the Prussian T 15.

Preserved locomotives

* ČSD U 36.003 (ex ''Göllnitztalbahn'' No. 3) with the

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(in regular operation) * ''HOHEMARK'' No.2 in the Frankfurt am Main Transport Museum 89 7462 DB museum Koblenz

Literature

* Geoff Murdoch. ''Tasmania's Hagans: the North East Dundas Tramway articulated J class''. The author, 1998. * Hagans, Friedrich; Lohr, Hermann; Thielmann, Dr. Georg: ''Lokomotiven von Hagans'', Transpress, Berlin 1991, *Karl-Ernst Maedel: ''Aus der Dampfzeit: Erinnerungen und Erzählungen aus einer vergangenen Epoche'', München 1999, Geramond,

External links

http://www.werkbahn.de/eisenbahn/lokbau/hagans.htm

Firmen-Geschichte der Fa. Hagans
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