Friday 17 March 2017

JF -4101 Jie Fang “Liberation” locomotive

JF -4101
Jie Fang “Liberation” 1-4-1 built in China after 1958.
The first 200 units were built by ALCO in the USA in 1918; then another 2000 were built in Japan and China under Japanese rule. After the revolution another 400 units were built int he PRC.
Length     22.63 m
Loco weight     103.85 tonnes
Maximum speed     80 km/h
Power output     1,152 kW
Tractive effort     240.3 kN
Their service life on mainline routes ended in 1996, but some continued lives in industrial locations.