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Sentetsu Mika class locomotives
🇰🇷 South Korea ·built by Unknown builder· meta-class of 4 Korean 2-8-2 locomotive classes
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Mikado locomotive 미카 - Flickr - skinnylawyer: skinnylawyer from Los Angeles, California, USA· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Mika (Japanese ミカ, Korean 미카) type was made up of four distinct classes of steam tender locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) with 2-8-2 wheel arrangement. The "Mika" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 2-8-2 wheel arrangement were called "Mikado" in honour of the Emperor of Japan, as the first 2-8-2 locomotives in the world were built for Japan. There were four classes of the Mika type built for Sentetsu: Mikai Mikani Mikasa Mikashi Of these, the Mikasa class was by far the most numerous.
spec sheet
- built
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- number built
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- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- builders
- Unknown builder
- top speed
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- power
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- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28803148, Wikipedia: Sentetsu Mika class locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.