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Baldwin DRS-6-4-1000
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1948· diesel-electric locomotive
what is it?
The Baldwin DRS-6-4-1000 is a diesel-electric locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works between 1948 and 1949. The DRS-6-4-1000s were powered by a turbo-charged six-cylinder diesel engine rated at 1,000 horsepower (746 kW), and rode on a pair of three-axle trucks in an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement. 20 of these models were built for a railroad in Algeria.
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 78 years ago, in 1948.
- 746 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1948–1949
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- top speed
- —
- power
- 746 kW
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)(A1A)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4850543, Wikipedia: Baldwin DRS-6-4-1000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.