2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. A DE33000 at Bandirma Station: Central Data Bank at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. DE33033 at Muradiye: Btian P. Dorsam· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
TCDD DE 33000 is a type of diesel-electric locomotive built for operations on Turkish State Railways by Tülomsaş. It is model GT26CW-2 designed by General Motors Electro-Motive Diesel and using the famous EMD 645 two stroke diesel engine and using the EMD Dash 2 electronic module. It has been revised to have EMD Dash 3 like microprocessor control in 2017.
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 23 years ago, in 2003.
- 2.5 MW is about 29 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
- 2003–2010
- in service from
- 2003
- number built
- 89
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- TÜLOMSAŞ
- designer
- Electro-Motive Diesel
- operators
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- top speed
- 131 km/h
- power
- 2.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- length
- 18.9 m
- weight
- 119 t
- nicknames
- Otuz üç binlikler(thirty three thousands)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q691383, Wikipedia: TCDD DE33000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.