Sentetsu Pashini-class locomotive
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The Pashini class (パシニ) locomotives were a group of steam tender locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) with 4-6-2 wheel arrangement. The "Pashi" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 4-6-2 wheel arrangement were called "Pacific".[citation needed]
In all, Sentetsu owned 144 locomotives of all Pashi classes, of which 141 survived the war; of these, 73 went to the Korean National Railroad in South Korea and 68 to the Korean State Railway in North Korea.[1]
Following the success of the Pashii class, Sentetsu took delivery of six locomotives from ALCo of the United States in 1923. they were originally numbered パシ913–パシ918, but after six Japanese-built copies of the Pashii class were delivered later in the same year, in 1924 the ALCo engines were renumbered パシ919–パシ924 in order to free 913–918 up for the new Pashii units.[2] When Sentetsu introduced its new numbering system in 1938, these engines were redesignated パシニ (Pashini) class and numbered パシニ1 through パシニ6.
These engines represented a milestone in Korean railway history, having been the very last class of locomotives imported by Sentetsu from outside the Japanese Empire.[3]
