#2992
Baldwin S-8
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Baldwin Locomotive Works· from 1951· diesel-electric locomotive
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. CRI&P 803 (Baldwin S-8) in September 1963 (22407705792): railfan 44· Public domain
what is it?
The BLH S8 was an 875-horsepower (652 kW) diesel–electric switcher locomotive. The Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation produced a total of 63 units (61 for United States railroads and 2 for use in Cuba) between 1951 and 1953. Of these, nine were calf units built for Oliver Iron Mining Company in Minnesota.
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.
- 652 kW is about 8 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
- 1951–1954
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 63
- kind
- Diesel–electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Baldwin Locomotive Works
- top speed
- 72 km/h
- power
- 652 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′B′
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4850595, Wikipedia: Baldwin S-8 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.