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- 1. DE36000 Yük Treni: Baris Özer· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
TCDD DE36000 is a class of diesel-electric locomotives built by TÜLOMSAŞ under license from GE PowerHaul for the Turkish State Railways (TCDD). The locomotives are equipped with a V16 four-stroke turbo-diesel engine featuring common rail fuel injection.
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 12 years ago, in 2014.
- 2.8 MW is about 32 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 22 African elephants (~6 t each).
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 2014
- in service from
- 2014
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇹🇷 Turkey
- builders
- TÜLOMSAŞ
- designer
- General Electric
- operators
- Turkish State Railways
- top speed
- 120 km/h
- power
- 2.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
- weight
- 130 t
- nicknames
- Otuz altı binlikler(36000ths)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28446065, Wikipedia: TCDD DE36000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.