The PL2 class "Prairie" is one of the industrial locomotives used by China Railway, originally built in 1935 by Nippon Sharyō for the South Manchuria Railway, which designated them Pureni (プレニ) class.PL2 1 to PL2 535, Railography : Chinese Locomotive Lists
After the war, Pureni class locomotives were taken over by the China Railway, becoming class ㄆㄌ2 in 1951, later PL2 in 1959, numbers 31–50.PL2 Class 2-6-2s, Railography : Chinese Steam Locomotive Profiles The PL2's were dispatched by diesels in February 2000 with No. 244 being the last one reported in service at the Anshan Steelworks.
Preservation PL2–248 is preserved at Kiraku-yama park, Tsukubamirai, Ibaraki, Japan.きらくやまふれあいの丘 PL2型（プレニ）
See also China Railways JF6 China Railways SY China Railways YJ
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