Sentetsu Tehoshi-class locomotive
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| Chosen Government Railway Tehoshi class (テホシ) Korean State Railway Tŏunŏ class (더우너) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Tehoshi-class (テホシ) locomotives were a class of steam tender locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) with 4-6-0 wheel arrangement.[1] The "Teho" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 4-6-0 wheel arrangement were called "Ten Wheeler".[2]
After the Liberation of Korea, of the 178 surviving locomotives of all Teho classes - including six previously owned by private railway companies - 106 went to the Korean National Railroad in the South, and 72 to the Korean State Railway in the North.[3]
Following the brief excursion to ALCo for the Tehosa class, Sentetsu once again returned to Baldwin for the next order of 4-6-0s. This was a small lot of four locomotives built in 1913, initially numbered 235–238 and intended for local freight trains, and had a lower profile than the previous Baldwin designs.[1] They were renumbered 661–664 in 1918, finally being designated テホシ (Tehoshi) class in the 1938 general renumbering, numbered テホシ1 through テホシ4.[1]
