Sentetsu Pureni-class locomotives
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The Pureni-class (プレニ) locomotives were a group of steam tank locomotives with 2-6-2 wheel arrangement of used by the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) in Korea. The "Pure" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 2-6-2 wheel arrangement were called "Prairie".[1]
In all, Sentetsu owned 227 locomotives of all Pure classes, whilst privately owned railways owned another 52; of these 279 locomotives, 169 went to the Korean National Railroad in South Korea and 110 to the Korean State Railway in North Korea.[2]
The Pureni class was introduced in 1905, with nine built in the United States by the Brooks Locomotive Works.[citation needed] Unlike the Purei class, the Pureni had a superheated steam boiler. These, like the 1906 batch of Purei class locomotives, were delivered in knockdown form and assembled at the Incheon shops.[3] The Gyeongbu Railway was nationalised by Sentetsu in 1906, and in 1918 they were renumbered 271 through 279.[4] One further unit was built in 1935 by Nippon Sharyō, as a replacement for the original 276.[3] The nine locomotives were renumbered プレニ1 through プレニ9 in the 1938 general renumbering.[4]
