page_title: Sentetsu Mika class locomotives
hierarchical_section_title: Sentetsu Mika class locomotives
caption_attribution_description: This Mikado is typical of the locomotives that served on Korean rail network during the war, and is part of the termination point monument, showing a desire to continue chugging north. The coal carriage toward the back shows the old Korean National Railroad (now known as Korail) logo. While the rail link to North Korea is physically restored and served by freight trains, only one passenger train made the trip north on a test run basis, in 2007, and with the rising tensions from 2008 on, the link fell into disuse again, with even freight trains being halted. I would so love for this link to open to regularly scheduled passenger traffic, as it would allow a train journey from Seoul not only to North Korea, but into China, and Europe via the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
context_page_description: The Mika type was made up of four distinct classes of steam tender locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway with 2-8-2 wheel arrangement. The "Mika" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 2-8-2 wheel arrangement were called "Mikado" in honour of the Emperor of Japan, as the first 2-8-2 locomotives in the world were built for Japan.
  There were four classes of the Mika type built for Sentetsu:
  Mikai
  Mikani
  Mikasa
  Mikashi
  Of these, the Mikasa class was by far the most numerous. The Mikasa class was also used by the privately owned West Chosen Central Railway in Korea, and some were also exported to the Central China Railway, which after the war were used by the China Railway. Following the partition of Korea, these locomotives were all divided between the Korean National Railroad in the South and the Korean State Railway in the North;
  In addition to the four classes built for Sentetsu, Sentetsu also operated around 54 Mantetsu Mikai-class locomotives taken on loan from the South Manchuria Railway and the Manchukuo National Railway
context_section_description: The Mika (Japanese ミカ, Korean 미카) type was made up of four distinct classes of steam tender locomotives of the Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) with 2-8-2 wheel arrangement. The "Mika" name came from the American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 2-8-2 wheel arrangement were called "Mikado" in honour of the Emperor of Japan, as the first 2-8-2 locomotives in the world were built for Japan.
  There were four classes of the Mika type built for Sentetsu:
  Mikai
  Mikani
  Mikasa
  Mikashi
  Of these, the Mikasa class was by far the most numerous. The Mikasa class was also used by the privately owned West Chosen Central Railway in Korea, and some were also exported to the Central China Railway, which after the war were used by the China Railway. Following the partition of Korea, these locomotives were all divided between the Korean National Railroad in the South and the Korean State Railway in the North;
  In addition to the four classes built for Sentetsu, Sentetsu also operated around 54 Mantetsu Mikai-class locomotives taken on loan from the South Manchuria Railway (Mantetsu) and the Manchukuo National Railway
  Of all Mika classes in Korea, including the 54 on loan to Sentetsu from Mantetsu and 13 owned by private railways, 131 went to the KNR and 292 to the Korean State Railway. Note that this number does not include the 14 Mantetsu Mikai and 8 Mikaro-class locomotives that were assigned to Mantetsu's Rajin depot in 1945 and were subsequently taken over by the Korean State Railway.
  Despite the DPRK government's extensive anti-Japanese propaganda, the railway nevertheless continues to use the "Mika" name officially for these locomotives even though it refers to the Japanese emperor.
caption: KNR 미카3-244 preserved at Imjingak
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