text: Turkish State Railways 24835, a six-axle diesel-electric locomotive of the DE24000 class, leads a freight train east on the Kayseri-Sivas Line near Bogazkopru, Turkey, on September 12, 1973. A large order of DE24000s allowed the Turkish Railways to retire many of their steam locomotives in the 1970s. Photograph by Victor Hand, collection of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art; Hand-TCDD-25-097