China Railways PL2

4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)Driver dia.1,370 mm (53.94 in)Length18.226 m (59 ft 9+1⁄2 in)Loco weight68 t (66.9 long tons; 75.0 short tons)Tender weight22.5 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)Cylinders2Cylinder size500 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