Baldwin AS-616

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Baldwin AS-616
Baldwin AS-616
Baldwin model AS-616 diesel-electric locomotive as delivered to the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil.
Power type Diesel-electric
Builder Baldwin Locomotive Works
Model AS-616
Build date 1950–1954
Total production 214 (+7 B units)
AAR wheel arr. C-C
Gauge 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm)
Power output 1,600 hp (1,200 kW)

The Baldwin AS-616 was a diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type rated at 1600 horsepower, that rode on three-axle trucks, having a C-C wheel arrangement.

Eighteen 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.

[edit] Original owners

Raiload Quantity Road Numbers Notes
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad
2
 408, 409
Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (demonstrators)
2
 1600 to Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway 211, to Soo Line 395
1601 to Oregon and Northwestern 1
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 388–394
Houston Belt and Terminal
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 (US Steel)
9
 1001–1009
Pennsylvania Railroad
12
 8966–8974, 8111, 8112, 8114 (ex-PWV) renumbered 6966–6977
Southern Pacific Railroad (Texas and New Orleans)
8
 177–184
Southern Pacific Railroad
51
 5228–5278
Southern Pacific Railroad
5
 5501–5505 B units - renumbered 4901–4905
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
5
 1502–1506
Trona
1
 52
Union Pacific Railroad
6
 1260–1265
Union Railroad
3
 625–627
Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil
12
 3371–3382 5 ft 3 in gauge
Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil
20
 4371–4390 metre gauge
Rede de Viação Paraná - Santa Catarina (Brazil)
5
 60–64 metre gauge
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Diesel locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works
Early units
Experimental units • Baldwin pre-production switchers
Switchers
VO-660 • DS-4-4-660 • DS-4-4-750 • S-8 • VO-1000 • DS-4-4-1000 • S-12
Road switchers
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