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This train was used to run ammunition and troops by South Korea during the civil war. It was operated by a Japanese born Korean, Han Joonki, who had been living in Nagasaki when the first atomic bomb was dropped. In December 1950, 2 months after 300,000 Chinese soldiers entered the war, during a return trip to the south, the engine was machine gunned my U.S. soldiers, whom were afraid that it would fall into the North's hands. The engine sat in the DMZ for over 50 years before it was recovered by the South. It now sits just south of the DMZ.