China Railways PL2

what is it?

The PL2 class 2-6-2 "Prairie" is one of the industrial locomotives used by China Railway, originally built in 1935 by Nippon Sharyō for the South Manchuria Railway, which designated them Pureni (プレニ) class. After the war, Pureni class locomotives were taken over by the China Railway, becoming class ㄆㄌ2 in 1951, later PL2 in 1959, numbers 31–50. The PL2's were dispatched by diesels in February 2000 with No.

who runs it

South Manchuria RailwayChina State Railway Group

base stats

• speed 60 km/htop speed
• weight 68 tin working order

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.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏18.2 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
• ⌛Served for 65 years (1935–2000).

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

spec sheet

built

1935–1959

in service from

1935

retired

2000

status

preserved

number built

—

kind

Steam

traction

steam

origin

🇯🇵 Japan

builders

Nippon Sharyo, CRRC Tangshan Co., Ltd.

operators

South Manchuria Railway, China State Railway Group

top speed

60 km/h

power

—

gauge

1,435 mm standard gauge

wheel arrangement

2-6-2

length

18.2 m

weight

68 t

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