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Lima LRS-1200
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Lima Locomotive Works· from 1950· model of American 1200hp road switcher
what is it?
The A-3174 (LRS-1200) was a model of 1,200 hp (895 kW) B-B diesel locomotive built by Lima-Hamilton in 1950. All sixteen units were built for the New York Central. A second order of 17 was outstanding at the time of Lima-Hamilton's merger with the Baldwin Locomotive Works, but owing to insufficient time to build the locomotives before the locomotive production ceased at Lima, NYC agreed to receive RS-12s from BLH, they were built at Eddystone, PA. Lima-Hamilton never assigned a model number to their models, but instead referred to them by specification numbers.
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 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 895 kW is about 11 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- 17.1 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
- 1950
- status
- retired
- number built
- 16
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Lima Locomotive Works
- operators
- New York Central Railroad, Penn Central Transportation Company
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- 895 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′Bo′
- length
- 17.1 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6548814, Wikipedia: Lima LRS-1200 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.