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Baldwin DS-4-4-1000

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Adapted from the English Wikipedia article Baldwin DS-4-4-1000, available under CC BY-SA 4.0Updated 30 November 2025
Baldwin Locomotive Works
IndustryLocomotive manufacturing
Founded1825
FateDefunct
Headquarters
Philadelphia
,
United States
ProductsLocomotives, including the DS-4-4-1000 series diesel-electric switchers

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The Baldwin DS-4-4-1000 series consisted of two variants of 1,000 horsepower four-axle diesel-electric switcher locomotives produced by Baldwin Locomotive Works between 1946 and 1951. The first group of 56 units was equipped with an 8-cylinder normally aspirated engine, while the later version introduced in 1948 utilized a more advanced 6-cylinder turbocharged prime mover. These locomotives replaced the earlier Baldwin VO-1000 model in Baldwin's lineup and were themselves succeeded by the Baldwin S-12 starting in 1951.

608NA (Normally Aspirated) engine

Railroad Quantity Road numbers Notes
Belt Railway of Chicago 1 405
Copper Range Railroad 2 100–101
Detroit Terminal Railroad 1 103
Erie Railroad 2* 600–601
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 11 1000–1010 renumbered to 22–32 in 1960; rebuilt by EMD with 1000-hp 12-567C engines from 1959 to 1960
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road") 2 100–101
Norfolk Southern Railway 2 1001–1002
Reading Company 14* 26–39
St. Louis Southwestern Railway ("Cotton Belt") 5 1023–1027
Seaboard Air Line Railroad 8* 1417–1424
U.S. Steel, Geneva Steel Division 6* 21–26
Western Maryland Railway 2 133–134
Total 56

606SC (Turbocharged) engine

Railroad Quantity Road numbers Notes
Akron and Barberton Belt Railroad 1 26
American Smelting and Refining Company 2 101–102
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 41 2200 (second),2260–2299
Atlanta and West Point Rail Road 2 676–677
Baldwin Locomotive Works (test) 1 100DF Dual fuel test using Bunker C Oil and Diesel, later rebuilt to standard and sold as Patapsco and Back Rivers #335
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 49 376–399,438–462 renumbered as 9225–9273
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad 1 282 transferred to Geneva Steel #38
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company 2 201–202 transferred to Escanaba and Lake Superior
Canadian Pacific Railway 11 7065–7075 manufactured by Baldwin Locomotive Works; one unit preserved in Toronto (7069)
Central of Georgia Railway 2 36–37
Central Railroad of Pennsylvania (Central Railroad of New Jersey) 3 1073–1075
Chicago and North Western Railway 5 1018–1022
Chicago Great Western Railway 10 32–41
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("Milwaukee Road") 10 1692–1697,1901–1904 renumbered as940–949
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway ("Omaha Road") 2 99–100
Erie Railroad 15* 602–616
Georgia Railroad 1 921
Ironton Railroad 2 750–751 750 later became Patapsco and Back Rivers #348;751 became Conrail #8354
Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad 2 53–54
Lehigh Valley Railroad 8 140–148
Long Island Rail Road 1 450
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad ("Soo Line") 2 311–312
Missouri Pacific Railroad 17 9120–9127,9133–9141 renumbered as1066–1073,1074–1082
Total 446

*Units ordered for both the 608NA & 606SC types

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