2-8-2 Steam Locomotives in Korea

Class Mika-1 (SMR) (Locobase 3083)

Drawn from the North & South Korean Locomotives Website -- [] . Data from table supplied to the site by Yuuji Oikawa (link later died). See also in Wikipedia at [], last accessed 5 July 2019.

The class leaders were built by Alco in 1918 with additional engines supplied by Shakakou, Kisha, and Kawasaki.

NB: Firebox heating surface area is calculated from the stated evaporative heating surface area minus the area derived from tube and flue counts, lengths and diameters

Class Mika-2/-3/-4 (Locobase 3082)

Drawn from the North & South Korean Locomotives Website -- [] . Data from table supplied to the site by Yuuji Oikawa.

This is a pretty small Mikado, but obviously suited for the job as it was built in relatively large numbers. Suppliers ranged from Alco to Kawasaki to Seoul to Kisha, the last two Korean builders. At the 1947 partition, South Korea kept 131 and North Korea took the lion's share of 292.

Class Nakiha/Hyouki 8 (Locobase 3081)

Drawn from the North & South Korean Locomotives Website ([]), although the listing is a little confusing. The author credits Yuuji Oikawa with the information on earlier classes and reproduces a table that refers to these narrow-gauge engines as Hiyouki-8. Yet he also credits Oikawa with a table of specifications in which the class is referred to as the Nakiha class.