Baldwin DRS-4-4-10

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Baldwin DRS-4-4-10
Baldwin DRS-4-4-10
Canadian Pacific Railway #8010.
Power type Diesel-electric
Builder Baldwin Locomotive Works
Model DRS-4-4-10
Build date July 1948 —
March 1950
Total production 22
AAR wheel arr. B-B
Gauge ft 8½ in (1435 mm)
Engine type 2-stroke diesel
Aspiration Turbocharger
Cylinders Straight-6
Transmission DC generator,
DC traction motors
Power output 1,000 hp (746 kW)
Locomotive brakes Straight air
Train brakes Air
Locale North America

The Baldwin DRS-4-4-10 (also referred to as the DRS4-4-1000) was a diesel-electric road switcher produced by the Baldwin Locomotive Works from July, 1948–March, 1950. The units featured a 1,000 hp, six-cylinder prime mover, and were configured in a B-B wheel arrangement mounted atop a pair of two-axle AAR Type-B road trucks, with all axles powered. They had a cast steel frame. The units were configured to normally run with the long hood in the forward position.

Only 9 were built for American railroads, with another 13 manufactured in January and February, 1949 by the Canadian Locomotive Company for the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, the first railroad in Canada to dieselize its locomotive fleet. The DRS-4-4-10 was (in most cases) visually indistinguishable from its 1,200-horsepower successor, the Baldwin RS-12. Only one intact example of the DRS-4-4-10 is known to exist today (former CPR #8000), and is currently on display in Calgary, Alberta.

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[edit] Units produced by Fairbanks-Morse (1948–1950)

Railroad Quantity Road numbers
Pennsylvania Railroad
6
5591–5594, 9276, 9277
Tennessee Central Railway
3
75–77

[edit] Units produced by the Canadian Locomotive Company (1949)

Railroad Quantity Road numbers
Canadian Pacific Railway
13
8000–8012 (units worked the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway)

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