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TCDD DE20000
🇺🇸 United States ·built by GE Transportation· from 1957· class of 5 Turkish diesel locomotives
what is it?
TCDD DE20000 were the first diesel-electric locomotive built for operations on Turkish State Railways. Five General Electric U18C units with Cooper Bessemer engines were built in 1957–58. All the locomotives are now retired from service.
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 69 years ago, in 1957.
- 1.3 MW is about 16 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 17 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.4 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1957–1958
- in service from
- 1957
- number built
- 5
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation, General Electric
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 16.4 m
- weight
- 102 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q645205, Wikipedia: TCDD DE20000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.