The first Diesel Electric Mainline with 2400 HP, 111 t weight and 39400 kg traction force was put into service with a ceremony in 1971. The locomotive was manufactured under license agreements with French Traction Export Company for locomotive and with Chantiers de L’Atlantique Company for engine.

This Locomotive and Engine Industry of Eskişehir was such a big factory that iron and sheet plates coming to the factory on trucks or wagons leave the factory in one week as a component of a locomotive.

431 units of DE 24000 type Diesel Electric Locomotives have been produced up to 1985.