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TCDD DH6000
🇦🇹 Austria ·built by GE Jenbacher· from 1959· class of 1 Turkish diesel-hydraulic locomotive
what is it?
TCDD DH6000 was a single diesel-hydraulic shunter built for the Turkish State Railways by Jenbacher based on Jenbacher DH600C.
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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- 410 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.4 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
- 1959
- in service from
- 1959
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇦🇹 Austria
- builders
- GE Jenbacher
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- 410 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B
- length
- 9.4 m
- weight
- 48 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7669649, Wikipedia: TCDD DH6000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.