what is it?
The Baldwin DRS-6-4-750 is a diesel-electric locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949. The DRS-6-4-750 was powered by a naturally aspirated six-cylinder diesel engine rated at 750 horsepower (559 kW), and rode on a pair of three-axle trucks in an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement. The only model ever produced was built for the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) Railroad in Morocco.
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 77 years ago, in 1949.
- 559 kW is about 7 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
- 1949
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- top speed
- —
- power
- 559 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 Q4850545, Wikipedia: Baldwin DRS-6-4-750 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.