List of Taiwanese Pacific locomotives

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The first 4-6-2 Pacific type locomotives appeared in Taiwan in 1912 when ALCo-Rogers delivered three simple expansion superheated 470 x 610 1600 62.2 tons[ clarification needed ] Pacific type locomotives derived from Japanese Government Railways saturated type 8900 delivered earlier by ALCo-Brooks to Japan to suit the Taiwanese conditions. They received numbers 200 - 202. One more locomotive number 203 was delivered in 1913. These locomotives started the Pacific era, which lasted more than sixty years in Taiwan. Later the ALCo Pacifics became class E 200. These American-built Pacifics remained the only ones in the island up to 1935. They hauled the most important passenger express pair of trains between Taihoku and Takao.

In 1935 five more Pacific type locomotives, this time standard Japanese Government Railways class 55 Pacifics, were added to the locomotive stock numbered 551 - 555. In 1938 four more were delivered numbered 556 - 559. When the Pacific War started on December 7, 1941, there were only 13 Pacific type locomotives working in Taiwan. The increasing wartime traffic demanded more passenger type locomotives in Taiwan. Two new Pacifics, this time Japanese Government Railways class 57, arrived in 1942 and four more in 1943. In addition, during the war the Japanese could only deliver to Taiwan some of their C11 type 1C1t-h2 tank locomotives and their general purpose class D51 1D1-h2 Mikado type locomotives.

All Pacifics survived the war. Hitachi delivered eight more class 57s (presumably as war reparations) to Taiwan Railway Administration. These were the last Pacific type locomotives to arrive in Taiwan or, then called, National China under the Chiang Kai-shek administration. All of them were of 2C1-h2 wheel arrangement and built to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge.

classnumberbuilderserial numberbuild datenotes (preservation status as of November 2006)
E200 ALCo-Rogers 514941912in service to 1950s
E201ALCo-Rogers514951912in service to 1950s
E202ALCo-Rogers514961912in service to 1950s
E203ALCo-Rogers539771912in service to 1950s
C551 Mitsubishi 16919351972 in service Taipei; preserved at Lotus Pound, Tzuo-Ying, Kaoshion
C552Mitsubishi1701935
C553Mitsubishi17119351972 in service Taipei
C554Mitsubishi1721935
C555 Kawasaki 157519351972 in service Taipei
C556Mitsubishi21519381972 in service Taipei
C557Mitsubishi2161938
C558Mitsubishi21919381972 in service Taipei
C559Mitsubishi22019381972 in service Taipei; preserved at Tainan Sports Park
C571 Hitachi 151219421972 in service Chia Yi; preserved at The Lover's Lake, Keelung
C572Hitachi15131942
C573Kawasaki286219431972 in service Chia Yi; preserved at Taiwan Traditional Village, Chang-Hua
C574Kawasaki286319431972 in service Chia Yi
C575Kawasaki28641943
C576Kawasaki286519431972 in service Chia Yi
CT277Hitachi210219531972 in service Chia Yi
CT278Hitachi21031953Preserved at Er-Shuei Station
CT279Hitachi21041953
CT280Hitachi21051953
CT281Hitachi21061953
CT282Hitachi21071953
CT283Hitachi210819531972 in service Chia Yi
CT284Hitachi210919531972 in service Chia Yi; preserved at I-Lan Sports Park

Class E was reclassified to ET, and class C to CT under Taiwan Railway Administration.

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