The Goroi class (ゴロイ) was a class of steam tank locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway (''Sentetsu'') with

2-4-2 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and two trailing wheels on one axle. The type is somet ...

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".

Description

Three Goro-class locomotives were built in 1923 by Kisha Seizō of

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for Sentetsu, delivered in 1924. Initially numbered 61-63, they received the ゴロイ1 through ゴロイ3 numbers in Sentetsu's general renumbering of 1938. After the partition of Korea, all three Goroi-class locomotives went to the

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, where they were designated 고로하 (''Koroha'') class and numbered 고로하1 through 고로하3.

Construction

References

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