Baldwin DRS-6-6-1500

DRS-6-6-1500

Magma Arizona Railroad #10 (ne McCloud River Railroad #29) at the Arizona Railway Museum
Type and origin
Power type Diesel electric
Builder Baldwin Locomotive Works
Model DRS-6-6-1500
Build date February 1948–July 1950
Total produced 82
Specifications
AAR wheel arr. C-C
Gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Prime mover 608SC
RPM range 625 (max)
Aspiration Turbocharged
Cylinders 8
Cylinder size 12.75 in × 15.5 in (324 mm × 394 mm)
Performance figures
Power output 1,500 hp (1.12 MW)

The Baldwin DRS-6-6-1500 was a diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type rated at 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW), that rode on a pair of three-axle trucks, having an C-C wheel arrangement.

Original buyers

Railroad ttc Quantity Road numbers Notes
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad
5
403–407
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
3
5530–5532
Chicago and North Western Railway
8
1500–1502, 1505–1509
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway
4
200–203
to Soo Line Railroad 384–387
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway
2
500–501
ex Bessemer and Lake Erie 401–402
Erie Railroad
12
1150–1161
Kaiser Steel
2
1010A, 1010B
McCloud River Railroad
2
28, 29
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway
1
15
Northern Pacific Railway
1
177
Renumbered 525
Southern Pacific Company
28
5203–5226, 187–190
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
2
1500, 1501
Union Railroad
12
613–624
Total 82

References


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