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TCDD DE11000
🇹🇷 Turkey ·built by KraussMaffei· from 1985· class of 85 Turkish diesel-electric locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TCDD DE11052: Alasdair McLellan· Public domain
what is it?
TCDD DE11000 is a series of diesel-electric locomotives used by the Turkish State Railways. The batch consisted of 85 units delivered from 1985. The first 20 locomotives were built by Krauss-Maffei, the remaining 70 on licence by Tülomsaş.
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 41 years ago, in 1985.
- 785 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 13.3 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1985–1990
- in service from
- 1985
- number built
- 85
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- KraussMaffei, TÜLOMSAŞ
- operators
- Turkish State Railways, TCDD Taşımacılık
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 785 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- length
- 13.3 m
- weight
- 68 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q241385, Wikipedia: TCDD DE11000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.