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Chōsen Railway Class 660
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kisha Seizo· from 1937· class of 6 Korean 2-6-2 locomotives
what is it?
The Class 660 was a class of steam tender locomotives with 2-6-2 wheel arrangement operated by the Chōsen Railway (Chōtetsu) in colonial 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 89 years ago, in 1937.
- 13.3 m long: about 3 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
- 1937
- in service from
- 1937
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kisha Seizo, Nippon Sharyo
- operators
- Chōsen Railway, Korean State Railway, Korea Railroad Corporation, Korean National Railroad
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 762 mm narrow gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-2
- length
- 13.3 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16164233, Wikipedia: Chōsen Railway Class 660 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.