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Baldwin RS-4-TC

🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1953· diesel-electric locomotive

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6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
  1. 1. Northwest Railway Museum-2: Shakespeare at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. 2. Mid-Continent Railway - 1256 diesel locomotive (Baldwin RS-4-TC) 6 (19124362509): James St. John· CC BY 2.0
  3. 3. Longhorn & western 1954 Baldwin RS-4-TC 1A 4035 at the Texas Transportation Museum: Erffli· CC0
  4. 4. Longhorn & western 1954 Baldwin RS-4-TC 1A 4035 at the Texas Transportation Museum side: Erffli· CC0
  5. 5. Mid-Continent Railway - 1256 diesel locomotive (Baldwin RS-4-TC) 4 (19284431206): James St. John· CC BY 2.0
  6. 6. Sulphur Springs January 2016 3 (Blacklands RS-4-TC No. 4014): Michael Barera· CC BY-SA 4.0
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Baldwin RS-4-TC, photo 1 of 6
1/6 Shakespeare at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0

what is it?

The Baldwin RS-4-TC is a diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation between July 1953 and January 1955. The RS-4-TCs were powered by a supercharged twelve-cylinder diesel engine rated at 400 horsepower (298 kW), and rode on a pair of two-axle trucks in a B-B wheel arrangement. 74 of these models were built mainly for the Army while a few of them went to the Air Force.

who runs it

United States Air ForceTransportation Corps

base stats

  • power 298 kWpower output
  • built 74made in total

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 73 years ago, in 1953.
  • 11.6 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.

diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).

spec sheet

built
1953–1955
number built
74
kind
Diesel-electric
traction
diesel
origin
🇺🇸 United States
builders
Baldwin Locomotive Works
operators
United States Air Force, Transportation Corps
top speed
—
power
298 kW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
wheel arrangement
B-B
length
11.6 m

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q4850585, Wikipedia: Baldwin RS-4-TC (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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