The Class 44 Steam Locomotives are the Prussian G8 (DB/DR Class 55). They are used in heavy shunting and local freight duties.
The Class 44 Steam Locomotives are the Prussian G8 (DB/DR Class 55). They are used in
heavy shunting and local freight duties.
History: TCDD G8's have a very complicated history and not all the records are available to trace back every unit:
44001 to 44046 (46 units) have been supplied during WWI to the CFOA (Ottoman Anatolian Railways) as part of the war supplies send to the Ottomans Empire by the Germans.
44047 to 44056 (10 units) have been acquired new by the SCP in 1924 from Linke Hoffman.
Some in the 44057 to 44087 series have been purchased second hand by TCDD from DHP (Damas Hama et Prolongement - Damascus Homa Railway). These engines are part of the 71 G8's taken by France after WWI as reparation after the armistice of 1918 (also known as SNCF 040C). In 1939, 48 units are sold to the DHP, which at that time was still under French control. Despite WWII, they were all delivered to DHP by 1941. Between 5 and 13 units are thoughts to be transferred to TCDD afterwards.
Some also in the 44057 to 44087 series must have been acquired through the various companies linked to the dismemberment of the Baghdad Railways (Cenup - South Railway, Société d'exploitation des Chemins de Fer Bozanti Alep Nissibine - Pozanti Halep Nusaybin Railway, Chemins de fer de Cilicie Nord Syrie - North Syrian Railway)
Engine number 44084 to 44086 do not seem to exist.
Source: DEMIRYOLU
Close-up of TCDD 44059 taking a rest between switching duties at Kemalpasa
TCDD 44059 switching a block of livestock wagons Kemalpasa
TCDD 44059 resting at Kemalpasa
TCDD 44059 is on the lead track shunting wagons on the west end of
Kemalpasa marshalling yard.
Kemalpasa Yard Switcher TCDD 44059 resting between duties.