#1658
Sentetsu Barui-class locomotive
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1913· class of 12 Korean 4-6-4T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Sentetsu-baltic-503: Railway Bureau of the Government-General of Korea· Public domain
what is it?
The Barui class (バルイ) was a class of steam tank locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) with 4-6-4 wheel arrangement. The "Baru" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 4-6-4 wheel arrangement were called "Baltic". To meet the needs of ever-increasing freight traffic, four were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of the United States for Sentetsu in 1913, who used them primarily on the Gyeongwon Line.
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 113 years ago, in 1913.
- Weighs about as much as 25 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 1 years (1913–1914).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1913–1914
- in service from
- 1913
- retired
- 1914
- status
- retired
- number built
- 12
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Chōsen Government Railway, Korea Railroad Corporation, Korean State Railway, Korean National Railroad
- top speed
- 75 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-4T
- length
- 13.6 m
- weight
- 150 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28731179, Wikipedia: Sentetsu Barui-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.