#1928
Sentetsu Pashii-class locomotive
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1921· class of 18 Korean 4-6-2 steam locomotives
what is it?
The Pashii class (パシイ) 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
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 105 years ago, in 1921.
- Weighs about as much as 16 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 21.9 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
- 1921–1923
- in service from
- 1919
- number built
- 18
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Kisha Seizo
- 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
- 4-6-2
- length
- 21.9 m
- weight
- 94.4 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q48814721, Wikipedia: Sentetsu Pashii-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.