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Baldwin DRS-6-4-660NA
🇫🇷 France ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1946· Diesel locomotive
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SNCF Class A1AA1A: Tangopaso· Public domain
- 2. A1A-A1A-62026: Didier Duforest· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Baldwin DRS-6-4-660, known in France as the A1AA1A 62000, is a road switcher diesel-electric locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works between 1946 and 1948. The DRS-6-4-660s was based on the Baldwin VO-1000. They were powered by a naturally aspirated six-cylinder diesel engine rated at 660 horsepower (492 kW), and rode on a pair of three-axle trucks in an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement.
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 80 years ago, in 1946.
- 492 kW is about 6 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
- 1946–1948
- retired
- 1993
- status
- retired
- number built
- 106
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Société nationale des chemins de fer français, ONCF
- top speed
- —
- power
- 492 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- (A1A)(A1A)
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q2818937, Wikipedia: Baldwin DRS-6-4-660NA (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.