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Baldwin RP-210
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1956· model of 3 American lightweight diesel-hydraulic locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Baldwin RP-210 B-L-H photo May 1956: Publicity and Press Photo (work-for-hire photographer unknown)· Public domain
- 2. Baldwin RP-210 B-L-H Photo, September 1956: Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (defunct, 1972), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Copyright - March, 1957· Public domain
what is it?
The RP-210 was a streamlined 1,000 hp (750 kW) locomotive built in 1956 by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, specifically to operate with the experimental, all-aluminum Train-X coaches that were built by the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company. The model represented Baldwin's attempted entry into the lightweight passenger locomotive market, but only three of the low-slung diesel-hydraulic units were produced. The first RP-210 was built for the New York Central Railroad to power their Ohio Xplorer train between Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, and a pair was purchased by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad to double-end their Dan'l Webster, running between New York City and Boston.
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 70 years ago, in 1956.
- Top speed is 1.5× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 12 minutes.
- 746 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 15 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
- 1956
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Diesel-hydraulic
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- New York Central Railroad, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
- top speed
- 193 km/h
- power
- 746 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 660 V DC (NH only) traction motors, (2x)150 hp
- wheel arrangement
- B-2
- length
- 17.7 m
- weight
- 89.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4850583, Wikipedia: Baldwin RP-210 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.