The TCDD Decapod 56 548 is approaching Arapli with a mixed train in the low and warm evening light. A Dietmar Kramer charter.

Wedding pics at Varda viaduct.

56-548 and its mixed passenger-freight train on the 92 m (322 ft) high and 172 m (564 ft) long Varda Viaduct. It is one of most iconic engineering structures of the former "Baghdad Railway". It ... (more)

Karakuju to Gümüsgün

TCCD 44.071 simmers during a nighttime photo session at Uşak shed. The 44.071 was not in working order, only some tatters dipped into oil created that breeze of smoke. On the left 56.548 whic... (more)

"Skyliners" were Turkey's largest steam locos and the only ones fitted with a mechanical stoker. Eighty-eight were built by Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA for the Turkish Ra... (more)

With a special freighttrain the oilfired 56 009 crossed the high peaks on the Taurusline in south-west Turkey. It was taken in October 1997. (scanned slide)

56.009 (Esslingen) is seen here at the start of the very spectacular railway line from Erzincan to Divrigi, right in the hearth of Turkey. The line will then follow the Euphrate River through a re... (more)

The TCDD Kriegslok 56 548 is posing near the water tower in the Usak shed. She is today the unique operational steam locomotive in the country. She has been built in 1943 by the Wiener Lokomotivfa... (more)

The 56 548 is leaving the little village of Yildirimkemal with a freight train in direction to Afyon. The parabolic antenna demonstrates that the modern TV technology has already reached the small... (more)