Kassel - Technik-Museum Kassel - Henschel Drache
The Drache (dragon) was the first railroad engine build by Henschel in Kassel. It was finished in 1848.
Consequently the steam locomotive of the wheel arrangement 2 B received the factory number "1".
Was decisively involved in the construction the English engineer Jame Brook whom Carl Anton Henschel had put three years before.It was delivered on the 29th of July, 1848 to the Electorate of Hesse Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft. The price: 15.686 talers.
The Drache was taken out of service after 20-year-old operation duration in 1868.
A 1:1 wooden model of the railroad engine Drache stands in the technology museum of Kassel.
Kassel - Technik-Museum Kassel - Henschel Drache
The Drache (dragon) was the first railroad engine build by Henschel in Kassel. It was finished in 1848.
Consequently the steam locomotive of the wheel arrangement 2 B received the factory number "1".
Was decisively involved in the construction the English engineer Jame Brook whom Carl Anton Henschel had put three years before.It was delivered on the 29th of July, 1848 to the Electorate of Hesse Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft. The price: 15.686 talers.
The Drache was taken out of service after 20-year-old operation duration in 1868.
A 1:1 wooden model of the railroad engine Drache stands in the technology museum of Kassel.