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 ^1⁄2 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

• Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter’s Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company. pp. 300–302. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.