#1801
Sentetsu Tehoko-class locomotive
🇺🇸 United States ·built by American Locomotive Company· from 1917· class of 36 Korean 4-6-0 steam locomotives
what is it?
The Tehoko-class (テホコ) locomotives were a class of steam tender locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) with 4-6-0 wheel arrangement. The "Teho" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 4-6-0 wheel arrangement were called "Ten Wheeler". After the Liberation of Korea, of the 178 surviving locomotives of all Teho classes - including six previously owned by private railway companies - 106 went to the Korean National Railroad in the South, and 72 to the Korean State Railway in the North.
who runs it
base stats
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 109 years ago, in 1917.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 2 years (1917–1919).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1917–1919
- in service from
- 1917
- retired
- 1919
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 36
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- American Locomotive Company, CRRC Dalian Co., Ltd.
- operators
- Chōsen Government Railway, Korea Railroad Corporation, Korean State Railway, Korean National Railroad
- top speed
- 95 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-0
- length
- 18 m
- weight
- 72.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q48815183, Wikipedia: Sentetsu Tehoko-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.