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Baldwin AS-616
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1950· Model of 217 (A) and 7 (B) diesel-electric locomotives
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- 1. SP 5242 Roseville Hump: Drew Jacksich from San Jose, CA, California Republic· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
The BLH AS-616 was a 1,600 horsepower (1,200 kW) C-C diesel-electric locomotive built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton between 1950 and 1954. Nineteen railroads bought 214 locomotives, and two railroads bought seven cabless B units. The AS-616 was valued for its extremely high tractive effort, far more than any comparable Alco or EMD product.
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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 1.2 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 25 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.7 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1954
- number built
- 221
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Various
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 17.7 m
- weight
- 149 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4850527, Wikipedia: Baldwin AS-616 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.