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what is it?
TCDD DE22000 are 86 mainline locomotives built for the Turkish State Railways by TÜLOMSAŞ under license by General Motors Electro-Motive Diesel, based on the EMD G26CW-2. The locomotives use GM's 16 cylinder, direct injection 16 645E engine, AR10/D18 AC alternator and a D77-DC traction motor. The DE22000 are usually used for freight transport but are also used frequently for passenger transport.
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.
- 1.6 MW is about 19 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 18.9 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
- 1985–1989
- in service from
- 1985
- number built
- 86
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- TÜLOMSAŞ
- designer
- Electro-Motive Division
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 1.6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 18.9 m
- weight
- 118 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q1315702, Wikipedia: TCDD DE22000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.