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- 1. A Turkish DE18100 at Menemen: Central Data Bank ( talk )· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
TCDD DE18100 are a type of diesel-electric road switcher built for operations on Turkish State Railways by Matériel de Traction Electrique. Based on the same platform and order as the DE24000, it was a light-axle version of the locomotive, very similar to the DE18000, though with a different wheel arrangement. The units have mostly been used around İzmir.
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 48 years ago, in 1978.
- 1.3 MW is about 16 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 14 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 16.4 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
- 1978
- in service from
- 1978
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- TÜLOMSAŞ
- designer
- Adapted from TCDD DE18000
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.3 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)(A1A)
- length
- 16.4 m
- weight
- 81 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1315693, Wikipedia: TCDD DE18100 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.