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Baldwin 0-6-6-0 1000
🇷🇺 Soviet Union ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1945· class of 30 American-built Russian diesel locomotives
what is it?
The Baldwin 0-6-6-0-1000/1DE were cab unit diesel-electric locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1945. The 0-6-6-0-1000/1DEs were powered by an eight-cylinder diesel engine rated at 1,000 horsepower (746 kW), and rode on a pair of three-axle trucks in a C-C wheel arrangement. 30 of these models were built for Soviet Railways, today Russian Railways, as Class Дб (Class Db).
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 81 years ago, in 1945.
- 746 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1945
- retired
- 1981
- status
- retired
- number built
- 30
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Soviet Union
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Soviet Railways
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- 746 kW
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- C′C′
- length
- 17.7 m
- weight
- 123 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1945987, Wikipedia: Baldwin 0-6-6-0 1000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.