Gölsdorf System
Gölsdorf may refer to: * Louis Adolf Gölsdorf (1837–1911), Austrian engineer and locomotive designer, father of Karl * Karl Gölsdorf (1861–1916), Austrian engineer and locomotive designer, son of Louis Adolf * Gölsdorf axle The Gölsdorf axle system is used on railway Gölsdorf locomotives to achieve quiet running and low wear-and-tear when negotiating curves. The axle system comprises a combination of fixed axles and axles that can slide transversely, all within a ...

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf
Louis Adolf Gölsdorf (16 February 1837 – 28 November 1911) was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer. He was the father of Karl Gölsdorf. Louis Adolf Gölsdorf was born in Plaue, Austria, on 16 February 1837 and educated in Chemnitz and Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony at various technical schools before taking up technical work for the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company. In 1860 he became a mechanical engineer with the Lokomotivfabrik der StEG in Vienna, but moved in 1861 to the Austrian Southern Railway, the ''Südbahn'', where he soon took on a leading role in the locomotive design office. From 1885 to 1908 he was the chief mechanical engineer (''Maschinendirektor'') of the Southern Railway (''Südbahn''). In addition to his own locomotive designs, he developed the so-called ''Gepäcklokomotive'' (luggage locomotive) with Anton Elbel, an economical type of locomotive with its own luggage compartment that was deployed on several Austro-Hungarian railways. He died ...
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Karl Gölsdorf
Karl Gölsdorf (8 June 1861 – 18 March 1916) was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer. Early life Karl Gölsdorf was born on 8 June 1861 in Vienna, the son of Louis Adolf Gölsdorf. Even as a schoolboy he was introduced to locomotive design by his father, the chief mechanical engineer (''Maschinendirektor'') of the Imperial and Royal Southern Railway (''k.u.k. Südbahn''). From 1880 to 1884, he attended the Vienna Technical High School and completed his diploma with distinction. In 1885, he joined the ''Wiener Maschinenfabrik'' (Vienna engineering works) as a chief design engineer. In 1889, he became head of assembly for locomotive construction. On 1 November 1891, he joined the design office of the Austrian State Railway as an engineer-''Adjunkt'' and began his creative work there. Inventions In 1893, he invented an effective starting system for compound locomotives. Until then, the locomotive starting systems in common use in Austria, with its sometimes taxing r ...
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