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TCDD DE21500
🇺🇸 United States ·built by GE Transportation· from 1964· class of 40 Turkish diesel locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DE21506 Karabük: Phil Wormald· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
TCDD DE21500 were diesel-electric locomotives built for operations on Turkish State Railways. Forty General Electric U20C units with GE engines were built in 1964–65. Most of the locomotives are 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 62 years ago, in 1964.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.2 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
- 1964–1965
- in service from
- 1957
- number built
- 40
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- GE Transportation, General Electric
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 17.2 m
- weight
- 112 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1315697, Wikipedia: TCDD DE21500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.