Baldwin DRS-6-6-1500

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 a C-C wheel arrangement.

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 83
Specifications Configuration: ​  • AAR 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)

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	24	5203–5226
Southern Pacific Company	1	5227	B unit
Southern Pacific Company (Texas & New Orleans)	4	187–190
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad	2	1500, 1501
Union Railroad	12	613–624
Total	83

References

• Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. pp. 300–302. ISBN 978-0-89024-026-7.