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TCDD DH6500
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Friedrich Krupp AG· from 1960· class of 40 Turkish diesel-hydraulic locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DH6500 August 2002: Ergün Tönük· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
TCDD DH6500 was a series of diesel-hydraulic shunter built for the Turkish State Railways. A total of 40 locomotives were built by Krupp-Esslingen after 1960, based closely on DB Class 360. They were equipped with Maybach GT6 engines.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 480 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 10.5 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1960
- in service from
- 1960
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Friedrich Krupp AG, Lokomotiv- und Waggonbaufabrik Krupp
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- 480 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C
- length
- 10.5 m
- weight
- 42.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5994411, Wikipedia: TCDD DH6500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.