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Baldwin 4-8+8-4-750/8-DE
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1943· road diesel locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1943
what is it?
The Baldwin 4-8+8-4 750/8DE1 was the Baldwin Locomotive Works' first attempt at building a road diesel locomotive. The trucks were configured in a 2-D+D-2 wheel arrangement. Only a single test unit was built.
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 83 years ago, in 1943.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 4.5 MW is about 53 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 52 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 27.7 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1943
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- top speed
- 193 km/h
- power
- 4.5 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- (2′Do)+(Do2′)
- length
- 27.7 m
- weight
- 311 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4850520, Wikipedia: Baldwin 4-8+8-4-750/8-DE (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.