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Baldwin DR-6
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1945· family of 6-axle passenger diesel locomotives built by Baldwin
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 1946 - New Jersey Central locomotive 2000 at Terminal RR Depot: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
Baldwin Locomotive Works produced several different Baldwin DR-6 models of 6-axle passenger train-hauling diesel locomotives between 1945 and 1948. The series comprised eight individual versions, all of which sold only in small numbers; across all versions, only 39 locomotives were produced. Each version was produced only for a single railroad.
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.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1945–1948
- status
- retired
- number built
- 39
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Central Railroad of New Jersey, Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, Chicago and North Western, Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- A1A-A1A and A1A-3
- nicknames
- Babyface, sharknose, double-ender, Jersey Janus
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4850542, Wikipedia: Baldwin DR-6 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.