Baldwin DRS-6-4-750
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The Baldwin DRS-6-4-750 is a Diesel-electric locomotive built by
Baldwin Locomotive Works The Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1951. Originally located in Philadelphia, it moved to nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania, in the early 20th century. The company was for decades t ...
in 1949. The DRS-6-4-750 was powered by a naturally aspirated six-
cylinder A cylinder (from ) has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a prism with a circle as its base. A cylinder may also be defined as an infin ...
diesel
engine An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy. Available energy sources include potential energy (e.g. energy of the Earth's gravitational field as exploited in hydroelectric power gen ...
rated at , and rode on a pair of three-axle trucks in an
A1A-A1A The AAR wheel arrangement system is a method of classifying locomotive (or unit) wheel arrangements that was developed by the Association of American Railroads. Essentially a simplification of the European UIC classification, it is widely used in ...
wheel arrangement. One of these models were built for Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP) Railroad in
Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
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Name designation

DRS - Diesel Road Switcher
6 - Six axles
4 - Four powered axles
750 - 750 horsepower


Original buyers


References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baldwin DRS-6-4-0750 Diesel-electric locomotives of Morocco A1A-A1A locomotives DRS-6-4-0750 Railway locomotives introduced in 1949 Standard gauge locomotives of Morocco