#3134
TCDD DH33100
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Maschinenbau Kiel· from 1953· class of 38 Turkish diesel-hydraulic locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. TCDD DH33121: Alasdair McLellan· Public domain
what is it?
TCDD DH33100 were diesel-hydraulic locomotive built for shunting operations on the Turkish State Railways. 38 units from Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK) were built starting in 1953 and another 24 were built by TCDD in Turkey. In 1980–1981 the shunters were rebuilt with Cummins Diesel KT1150L engines.
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 73 years ago, in 1953.
- 360 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.2 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
- 1953–1954
- in service from
- 1953
- number built
- 38
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenbau Kiel, Turkish State Railways
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 360 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
- length
- 9.2 m
- weight
- 32.5 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7669646, Wikipedia: TCDD DH33100 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.