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THE DELIGHT OF TURKISH STEAM

RUNTIME: 60 MINS

CAT: AWA286
UPC: 881482328697
RRP: $14.95

Turkey was a haven for historical steam until the end of the 1980’s.

  • Relive the sights and sounds of wheezing, leaking G8 0-8-0’s and G10 0-10-0’s in the Izmir area. 
  • 2-10-2’s shunting in passenger and freight service. 
  • A Nohab 2-6-0 is filmed in full cry on an evening passenger as well as a Kriegslok on the Denizili mixed storming Kemer and Selçuk banks.
  • A Robert Stephenson works the Odemis mixed, where engine and tender are separated for turning.
  • 05.00 on a frosty morning at Burdur reveals G8’s and 10’s, with some double heading.
  • Irmak and a British 8F performs shunting duties with ‘Skyliner’ 2-10-0’s in the Zonguldak, Karabük, Çankiri areas on passenger and heavy freight. 
  • On the black Sea Coast G8² 2-8-0’s work the Sivas-Samsun-Çarşamba and Eregli-Armaçuk lines.
  • An appreciation of the excellence of the 56 class 2-10-0’s is gained as they struggle up into the permanent snows at over 8,000 feet on the 235km Erzurum-Kars line, 12½ hours of solid thrash! 
  • 2-10-0’s and 2-10-2’s with some double heading, filmed near Gunerkoy Summit and on Turkmantepe Viaduct.