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Baldwin RT-624
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1951· model of 24 American centre-cab diesel-electric locomotives
what is it?
The BLH RT-624 was a twin-engined diesel-electric locomotive, built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation between August 1951 and February 1954. The RT-624, an improved version of the former Baldwin DT-6-6-2000, was a center-cab transfer locomotive. Twenty-four locomotives were built using 6-cylinder turbocharged 606A prime movers during 1951–1954.
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 75 years ago, in 1951.
- 1.8 MW is about 21 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 22.6 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1951–1954
- status
- retired
- number built
- 24
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- operators
- Pennsylvania Railroad, Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway, Penn Central Transportation Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- 1.8 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co′Co′
- length
- 22.6 m
- nicknames
- Center Cab
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4850592, Wikipedia: Baldwin RT-624 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.