#2042
Sentetsu Goroi-class locomotive
🇯🇵 Japan ·built by Kisha Seizo· from 1924· class of 3 Korean 2-4-2T locomotives
what is it?
The Goroi class (ゴロイ) was a class of steam tank locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) with 2-4-2 wheel arrangement. The "Goro" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 2-4-2 wheel arrangement were called "Columbia".
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 102 years ago, in 1924.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.3 m long: about 2 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
- 1924
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- builders
- Kisha Seizo
- operators
- Chōsen Government Railway, Korean State Railway
- top speed
- 75 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-2T
- length
- 9.3 m
- weight
- 43.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28775642, Wikipedia: Sentetsu Goroi-class locomotive (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.