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TCDD DH27000
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by KraussMaffei· from 1961· class of 3 Turkish diesel-hydraulic locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DH27003: Kraus-Maffei· CC0
what is it?
DH27000 was a series of three diesel-hydraulic locomotives bought by the Turkish State Railways from Krauss-Maffei in 1960 as a possible alternative to the American DE21500. Though performance was good, TCDD chose to buy the General Electric models, possibly due to better financing model for the latter.
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 65 years ago, in 1961.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1961
- in service from
- 1961
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- KraussMaffei
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C′C′
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7669644, Wikipedia: TCDD DH27000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.