Don's Rail Photos
Korean National Railroad
Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotives
After getting on the internet I found a web site which was amazing since I had worked on steam locomotives on the Korean National RR in 1953 and 1954. It is
http://www.pernet.net/~james1/us_steam/korea.htm.
It corrected some mistaken ideas I had, but also confirmed much of the information I had collected while in Korea. As an example, we referred to the narrow gauge as the Hokey. James D. Hefner reports the narrow gauge engines were classified as Hyouki. That's really close. I want to give due credit to James and the others who have made this page possible. Using his information, I present the following photos of KNR hokey steam locomotives.
Class 6 locomotives were 2-6-2T and are reported to have been built by Hitachi in 1926.
Class 7 locomotives were reported to have been 0-8-0T built by Hitachi in 1927. My photo of one shows it to be a 2-6-2T.
Class 8 locomotives were 2-8-2T and were built by Hitachi and Nippon in 1934.
Class 10 locomotives were 2-8-0 built by Kisha in 1936. I never saw any of them.
Class 11 locomotives were 2-8-2 built by Kisha and Nippon in 1937.
On James pages there is a photo of the 13 taken in 1979. And here is a photo of it 8 years later and other photos taken in 1994. Apparently another was preserved, but its whereabouts is not known at this time.
In addition, here is a photo of a gasoline rail car which was stored unserviceable. Some of these were used as coaches in steam train service.
Next we will look at the steam locomotives brought in by the U. S. Army.
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