BALDWIN VO-660

The 'Baldwin VO-660' was a diesel-electric locomotive switcher locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works between April, 1939 and May, 1946. The 197,520–203,980 lb (89,600–92,500 kg) units were powered by a six-cylinder diesel engine rated at 660 horsepower (492 kW), and rode on two-axle AAR Type-A switcher trucks in a B-B wheel arrangement. 142 examples of this model were built for American railroads, along with the United States Navy. Baldwin replaced the VO-660 with the model DS-4-4-660 in 1946.
In the early 1960s the Reading Company sent all 10 of their VO-660s to General Motors Electro-Motive Division to have them rebuilt to SW900 specifications. These locomotives received new frames, cabs, and carbodies. Only two intact examples of the VO-660 are known to survive today, one of which was by the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum to SMS Lines to be repaired and put back into operation. The other is Pickens Railway #2, built in 1946.

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Units produced

References

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Units produced

Railroad	Quantity	Road numbers
Akron and Barberton Belt Railway	1	25
American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO)	4	1950–1953
American Steel and Wire Company	3	1, 11, 23-1
Baldwin Locomotive Works	1	299 (pre-production unit, used as BLW plant switcher)
Basic Magnesium, Inc.	1	1000
Central of Georgia Railroad	1	5 (built as BLW demonstrator unit #337)
Central Railroad of New Jersey	4	1040–1043
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad	1	110
Chicago and North Western Railway	10	1237–1246
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad	1	1649 (renumbered 1635)
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway	3	58, 59, 68
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad	9	66–74
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway	3	270 (built as BLW demonstrator unit #336), 271, 272
Francisco Sugar Company, (Cuba)	1	45
Iowa Ordnance Plant	1	2-100
Kansas City Southern Railroad	1	1150
La Salle and Bureau County Railroad	1	6
Long Island Rail Road	1	403
Louisville and Nashville Railroad	4	20–23
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railroad	1	600
Minnesota Western Railway	1	1
Missouri Pacific Railroad	4	9009, 9010, 9012, 9026
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway	1	10
New Orleans Public Belt Railroad	3	41–43
New York Central Railroad	12	501, 502, 752–761
Northern Pacific Railway	3	128–130
Patapsco and Back Rivers Railway	3	63–65
Pennsylvania Railroad	12	5907–5909, 5932–5937, 5941–5943
Procter and Gamble	1	125
Reading Railroad	11	60 (pre-production unit), 61–70
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway	2	600, 601
Seaboard Air Line Railroad	1	1202
Singer Manufacturing Company	1	2 (to Pickens Railway #2)
Southern Pacific Railroad	2	1021, 1022
Southern Railway	1	DS2005
Standard Steel Division of Baldwin Locomotive Works	1	12 (plant switcher, built as BLW demonstrator unit #335)
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis	4	531–534
Union Terminal Railway of Memphis (Missouri Pacific Railroad)	2	9090, 9091
United States Navy	6	10, 11, 15, 16, 18, 31
Upper Merion and Plymouth Railway	2	51, 52
Wabash Railroad	1	200
Warner Company	1	11
Western Maryland Railway	4	101, 103–105
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company	1	10
Wyandotte Terminal Railway	3	101–103
Youngstown Sheet and Tube	8	600–607

References

★ The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide, Pinkepank, Jerry A., , , Kalmbach Publishing Co, 1973, ISBN 0-89024-026-4

External links

★ Baldwin VO-660 Roster

★ BLW Demonstrators, Prototypes and Test Beds

★ CKD Praha 6S310DR diesel engine, and the Baldwin VO and 600 series engines

★ Existing Baldwin VO Model Units

★ Preserved Baldwin and Lima Locomotives

★ PRR Diesel Locomotive diagrams: Baldwin VO-660

★ VO-660 — Original Owners