Baldwin DRS-6-6-1500

DRS-6-6-1500

Magma Arizona Railroad #10 (ne McCloud River Railroad #29) at the Arizona Railway Museum

Type and origin
Power type	Diesel electric
Builder	Baldwin Locomotive Works
Model	DRS-6-6-1500
Build date	February 1948–July 1950
Total produced	82

Specifications
AAR wheel arr.	C-C
Gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Prime mover	608SC
RPM range	625 (max)
Aspiration	Turbocharged
Cylinders	8
Cylinder size	12.75 in × 15.5 in (324 mm × 394 mm)

Performance figures
Power output	1,500 hp (1.12 MW)

The Baldwin DRS-6-6-1500 was a diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type rated at 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW), that rode on a pair of three-axle trucks, having an C-C wheel arrangement.

Original buyers

Railroad	ttc Quantity	Road numbers	Notes
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad	5	403–407
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway	3	5530–5532
Chicago and North Western Railway	8	1500–1502, 1505–1509
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway	4	200–203	to Soo Line Railroad 384–387
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway	2	500–501	ex Bessemer and Lake Erie 401–402
Erie Railroad	12	1150–1161
Kaiser Steel	2	1010A, 1010B
McCloud River Railroad	2	28, 29
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway	1	15
Northern Pacific Railway	1	177	Renumbered 525
Southern Pacific Company	28	5203–5226, 187–190
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad	2	1500, 1501
Union Railroad	12	613–624
Total	82

References

Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter’s Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company. pp. 300–302. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.

Diesel locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works

Early units	Experimental units Baldwin pre-production switchers 4-8+8-4-750/8-DE

Switchers	VO-660 RS-4-TC DS-4-4-660 DS-4-4-750 S-8 VO-1000 DS-4-4-1000 S-12

Road switchers	DRS-4-4-1000 RS-12 DRS-4-4-1500 AS-16 DRS-6-4-1500 AS-416 DRS-6-6-1500 AS-616

Transfer units	DT-6-6-2000 RT-624

Cab units	DR-12-8-1500/2 DR-6 series DR-4-4-15 RF-16 RP-210

Export units	Soviet Railways ДБ20 DRS-6-4-660 DRS-6-4-750 DRS-6-4-1000 RF-615E

(See also: List of Baldwin diesel locomotives)

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