Baldwin AS-616

Baldwin model AS-616 diesel-electric locomotive as delivered to the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil.

Type and origin
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton
Model	AS-616
Build date	September 1950–May 1954
Total produced	214 (+7 B units)

Specifications
AAR wheel arr	C-C
Gauge	4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Prime mover	608A

Performance figures
Power output	1,600 hp (1,200 kW)

The Baldwin AS-616 was a diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type rated at 1,600 horsepower (1,200 kW), that rode on three-axle trucks, having a C-C wheel arrangement.

Nineteen railroads bought 214 locomotives, and two railroads bought seven cabless B units.

Used in much the same manner as its four-axle counterpart, the Baldwin AS-16, though the six-motor design allowed better tractive effort at lower speeds.

Original owners

Railroad	Quantity	Road Numbers	Notes
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (demonstrators)	2	1600	to Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway 211, to Soo Line 395
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (demonstrators)	2	1601	to Oregon and Northwestern Railroad 1
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad	2	408, 409
Chicago and North Western Railway	3	1560, 1561, 1604
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway	39	5528–5529, 5533–5569
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway	7	204–210	to Soo Line Railroad 388–394
Houston Belt and Terminal Railway	1	32
Kaiser Steel	2	1012A, 1012B
Milwaukee Road	6	2100–2101, 2104–2107
Milwaukee Road	2	2100B, 2101B	B units - rebuilt with cabs and renumbered 2102, 2103 c.1953
Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México	20	6800–6819
Orinoco Mining Company, Venezuela (U.S. Steel)	9	1001–1009
Pennsylvania Railroad	12	8966–8974, 8111, 8112, 8114 (ex-PWV)	renumbered 6966–6977
Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway	1	40	to PRR in 1960^[1]
Southern Pacific Company (Texas and New Orleans Railroad)	8	177–184
Southern Pacific Company	51	5228–5278
Southern Pacific Company	5	5501–5505	B units - renumbered 4901–4905
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company	5	1502–1506
Trona Railway	1	52
Union Pacific Railroad	6	1260–1265
Union Railroad	3	625–627
Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil	12	3371–3382	1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) gauge
Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil	20	4371–4390	1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) metre gauge
Rede de Viação Paraná-Santa Catarina (Brazil)	5	60–64	1,000 mm
Total	214	A units
Total	7	B units

Notes

↑ Worley, H. V. & Poellot, Jr., W. N. (1989). The Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway: Story of the high and dry. pp. 201, 203-204, 275. Halifax, PA: Withers Publishing. ISBN 0-9618503-5-3.

Diesel locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works

Early units	Experimental units Baldwin pre-production switchers 4-8+8-4-750/8-DE

Switchers	VO-660 RS-4-TC DS-4-4-660 DS-4-4-750 S-8 VO-1000 DS-4-4-1000 S-12

Road switchers	DRS-4-4-1000 RS-12 DRS-4-4-1500 AS-16 DRS-6-4-1500 AS-416 DRS-6-6-1500 AS-616

Transfer units	DT-6-6-2000 RT-624

Cab units	DR-12-8-1500/2 DR-6 series DR-4-4-15 RF-16 RP-210

Export units	Soviet Railways ДБ20 DRS-6-4-660 DRS-6-4-750 DRS-6-4-1000 RF-615E

(See also: List of Baldwin diesel locomotives)

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