Columbus was a tender locomotive operated by the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company (Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn or LDE).
The locomotive was sent to the LDE on the recommendation of the Saxon consul in the United States.
Similar locomotives had already proven themselves on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
In the LDE's company records the locomotive was later described as unreliable and unusable.
In 1842 the locomotive was given to the Sächsische Maschinenbau-Compagnie in Chemnitz in payment for the PEGASUS.