China Railways ST2

what is it?

The China Railways ST2 class steam locomotive was a class of 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" type steam locomotives operated by the China Railway, built by the Krupp in Germany in 1935 for the privately owned Jinpu Railway in China. After 1938 they were operated by the North China Transportation Company, which designated them サタニ (Satani) class; after 1949 they were operated by the China Railway as class ST2, with the last of them retired by 1990. ST2-22 remains preserved at the Shenyang Railway Museum.

who runs it

TRTianjin–Pukou RailwayNorth China Transportation CompanyChina State Railway Group

base stats

• built 10made 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 91 years ago, in 1935.

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

spec sheet

built

1935

number built

10

kind

Steam

traction

steam

origin

🇨🇳 China

builders

Friedrich Krupp AG, Lokomotiv- und Waggonbaufabrik Krupp

operators

Tianjin–Pukou Railway, North China Transportation Company, China State Railway Group

top speed

—

power

—

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

wheel arrangement

2-10-2

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