TCDD Open Air Steam Locomotive Museum
Encyclopedia
TCDD Open Air Steam Locomotive Museum is a railroad museum in the Maltepe district of Ankara
, Turkey
, which traces the history of steam locomotives.
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, which traces the history of steam locomotives.
Museum
Exhibits on display;- 34061 1930 Henschel & SonHenschel & SonHenschel & Son was a German company, situated in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehicles and weapons....
(Germany) Locomotive - 44015 1912 Hanover Vulcan (Germany) Locomotive
- 45035 1932 NOHABNOHABNOHAB was a manufacturing company in the city of Trollhättan, Sweden.The company was founded by Antenor Nydqvist, Johan Magnus Lidström and Carl Olof Holm in 1847 as Trollhättans Mekaniska Verkstad as a manufacturer of turbines for hydraulic power plants...
(Sweden) Locomotive - 45174 1943 Baldwin Locomotive WorksBaldwin Locomotive WorksThe Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Although the company was very successful as a producer of steam locomotives, its transition to the production of...
(USA) Locomotive - 46224 1942 Baldwin Locomotive Works (USA) Locomotive
- 55047 1924 Schwartzkopt (Germany) Locomotive
- 56086 1948 Vulcan FoundryVulcan FoundryVulcan Foundry was a British locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire .-History:It was originally opened in 1832 as Charles Tayleur and Company to produce girders for bridges, switches and crossings, and other ironwork following the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway...
(Great Britain) Locomotive - 56375 1948 Vulcan Iron WorksVulcan Iron WorksSince Vulcan was the Roman god of fire and smithery, the name was an obvious choice for an iron foundry or mechanical engineering works in the nineteenth century, both in England, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and in the United States.-England:...
(USA) Locomotive - 56504 1943 Henschel & Son (Germany) Locomotive
- 57007 1932 Henschel & Son (Germany) Locomotive
- 1909 Beuchelt & Co. (Germany) Wooden Passenger Carriage
- Restaurant Carriage