Russian Decapod in China

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:14 pm

This website is in a foreign language mostly, but if you scroll down on the left window listing the locomotive classes, there is a DK2 near the bottom. Clicking on this brings up a photo on the right window and if you click on the yellow characters under the photo, it brings up the photo of a Russian Decapod in China. This appears to be of the WWII variety, and is the only one I've seen a photo of in China, though some also ended up in North Korea.

http://homepage2.nifty.com/QJSYJ/SLprofile.htm

I've heard that some of the WWII Russians were shipped with two sets of wheels, standard and five-foot gauge. Can anyone verify that and provide more details?

wilkinsd · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:08 pm

bobyar2001 wrote:

I've heard that some of the WWII Russians were shipped with two sets of wheels, standard and five-foot gauge. Can anyone verify that and provide more details?

My copy isn't with me here at school, but the best source to check is Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War by R. Tourrret. It was published in 1995 by Tourret publishing in Oxon England. It is a handy source, as it has the delivery dates and disposition data on about every Allied military locomotive, as well as a brief history of the class.

SZuiderveen · **Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:02 pm

Bob,

We saw this loco behind the Baotou shed in October of 2001, with Dave Conrad, Dennis Daugherty, and John Scott. I cant seem to find my scan of the original photo at this time; but I have a better angle, which is in Hefner's database. It was coupled to a Russian FC 2-10-2.

Steve Zuiderveen

Steve Singer · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:54 am

I have seen two Decapods in service in China in the 1980s. A Scoda built at Fushun coal mine, and a North Korean "Russian" type on a cross border train in Tumen.

Jim Livesey · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:50 pm **Posts:** 96

Chinese class DK2 were 1st World War Russian 2-10-0s (class Ye) left in north east China at the end of that war. The locos worked on the (still) 5' gauge Chinese Eastern Railway which was the part of the former Trans Siberian Railway which ran through Chinese territory.
Over 100 locos of this type were so used. In 1932, following invasion, the Japanese took over operation of the CER renaming it the Manchurian National Railways. The railway was converted to standard gauge, 44 of the DK2s were converted.

Info from: "Locomotives in China" Peter Clark 1983

Some of the 2nd World War 2-10-0s (class Yea) appear to have been fitted with standard gauge wheelsets as in 1992 there were 301 of the class in stock of which 15 are stated to have been standard gauge.

Infi from: "Soviet Locomotive Types" Heywood & Button 1995