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TCDD DH11500
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen· from 1962· class of 15 Turkish (ex-German) diesel-hydraulic locomotives
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what is it?
DH11500 was a series of 15 diesel-hydraulic shunter locomotive bought by the Turkish State Railways from Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1985. The units were all DB Class 211 built by Esslingen, Jung, and Maschinenbau Kiel in 1962 and 1963. TCDD originally rented the locomotives from Deutsche Bundesbahn's surplus stock for one year.
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 64 years ago, in 1962.
- 810 kW is about 10 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 11 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 12.1 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
- 1962–1963
- number built
- 15
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik, Maschinenbau Kiel
- operators
- Turkish State Railways, Deutsche Bundesbahn
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 810 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B'B'
- length
- 12.1 m
- weight
- 68 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7669643, Wikipedia: TCDD DH11500 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.