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Sentetsu Pashini-class locomotive

🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1923· class of 6 Korean 4-6-2 steam locomotive

what is it?

The Pashini class (パシニ) locomotives were a group of steam tender locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) with 4-6-2 wheel arrangement. The "Pashi" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 4-6-2 wheel arrangement were called "Pacific". In all, Sentetsu owned 144 locomotives of all Pashi classes, of which 141 survived the war; of these, 73 went to the Korean National Railroad in South Korea and 68 to the Korean State Railway in North Korea.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 95 km/htop speed
  • weight 90.4 tin working order
  • built 6made in total

Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.

fun facts

  • First built 103 years ago, in 1923.
  • Weighs about as much as 15 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 22.1 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.

steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.

spec sheet

built
1923
in service from
1923
number built
6
kind
Steam
traction
steam
origin
🇺🇸 United States
builders
American Locomotive Company
operators
Chōsen Government Railway, Korean State Railway
top speed
95 km/h
power
—
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
4-6-2
length
22.1 m
weight
90.4 t

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q48814730, Wikipedia: Sentetsu Pashini-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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