China Railways PL2 Mantetsu Pureni(プレニ)
PL2 248, Kiraku-yama park, Tsukubamirai, Ibaraki, Japan, March 2018
Type and origin Power type Steam Builder Nippon Sharyō Tangshan Railway Vehicle? Serial number プレニ 1- 20(SMR) PL2 31 - 50, and various other numbers(CR) Build date 1935 1958-1959?
Specifications Gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) Driver dia. 1,370 mm (53.94 in) Length 18.226 m (59 ft 9+1⁄2 in) Loco weight 68 t (66.9 long tons; 75.0 short tons) Tender weight 22.5 t (22.1 long tons; 24.8 short tons) Tender cap. 6 t (5.9 long tons; 6.6 short tons) ( coal), 18 m3 (636 cu ft) ( water) Cylinders 2 Cylinder size 500 mm × 610 mm (19.685 in × 24.016 in) bore x stroke
Performance figures Maximum speed 60 km/h (37 mph)
Career Operators South Manchuria Railway China Railway

The PL2 class 2-6-2 is one of the industrial locomotives used by China Railway, originally built in 1935 by Nippon Sharyō for the South Manchuria Railway, which designated them Pureni (プレニ) class. ^[1]

After the war, Pureni class locomotives were taken over by the China Railway, becoming class ㄆㄌ2 in 1951, later PL2 in 1959, numbers 31–50. ^{[1] [2]}

Preservation

• PL2-248 is preserved at Kiraku-yama park, Tsukubamirai, Ibaraki, Japan. ^[3]

See also

• China Railways JF6
• China Railways SY
• China Railways YJ

References