China Railways JF7

The China Railways JF7 was a class of 2-8-2 Mikado type steam locomotives, its Chinese name meaning liberation, operated by the China Railway and built between 1913 and 1924 by the North British Locomotive Company, assembled by the Tangshan Arsenal, and built also by American builders. Twenty-four were originally built for the Jingfeng Railway, known in English as the Peking-Mukden Railway. After the Japanese established the puppet Provisional Government of the Republic of China in 1938, these and other privately owned railways in its territory were nationalised to create the North China Transportation Company, a subsidiary of the South Manchuria Railway, which designated them the Mikana class. After the Pacific War they passed to the Republic of China Railway, and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, China Railways designated them MK7 in 1951 and JF7 in 1959, numbering them in the range 3601 to 3650, though the total number of engines is unknown. JF7-3608 was seen at Yanzhou in 1981, and the last of these locomotives were retired in 1990.