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Baldwin VO-660

{{Infobox locomotive

|name=Baldwin VO-660

|powertype=Diesel-electric

|image=Melching 483rd bg photo (37795600915) (cropped).jpg

|caption=D&RGW VO-660 switcher locomotive.

|builder=Baldwin Locomotive Works

|builddate=April 1939 – May 1946

|totalproduction=143

|buildmodel=VO-660

|aarwheels=B-B

|gauge={{RailGauge|ussg|allk=on}}

|length={{convert|48|ft|0|in|m|2|abbr=on}}

|locoweight={{convert|197520|-|203980|lb|kg|-2|abbr=on}}

|primemover=De La Verne VO

|rpmrange=625 rpm max.

|enginetype=Straight-6 Four-stroke diesel

|aspiration=Normally aspirated, solid fuel injection

|displacement={{convert|1979|cuin|L|abbr=on}} per cylinder
{{convert|11874|cuin|L|abbr=on}} total

|cylindercount=6

|cylindersize={{convert|12.75|x|15.5|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}

| transmission=Electric

|generator=DC generator

|tractionmotors=DC traction motors

|maxspeed=

|poweroutput={{convert|660|hp|abbr=on|lk=in}}

|tractiveeffort={{convert|49380|-|50995|lbf|kN|2|abbr=on}}

|locale=North America, Cuba

| locobrakes=Straight air

| trainbrakes=Air

}}

The Baldwin VO-660 was a diesel-electric 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, and reused only the trucks and batteries from the VO-660's.{{Cite web |url=http://www.geocities.com/ironhorseusa2000/vo660.htm |title=Reading Railroad: Baldwin VO660 |access-date=2009-10-26 |archive-date=2009-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091024150915/http://geocities.com/ironhorseusa2000/vo660.htm |url-status=dead }} Only four intact examples of the VO-660 are known to survive today. One was built as Baldwin 335, the first production VO-660. It was sold by the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum to SMS Lines to be repaired and put back into operation. SMS also owns the former Warner 11, which is being restored before being put into service. The others are Pickens Railway #2, built in 1946, and Wyandotte Terminal 103, at the Illinois Railway Museum, both of which are inoperable at the present time.

Units produced

class="wikitable"

! style = "background:#cc9966;" | Railroad

! style = "background:#cc9966;" |   Quantity  

! style = "background:#cc9966;" | Road numbers

! style = "background:#cc9966;" | Notes

rowspan=2 |Baldwin Locomotive Works (pre-production units)style="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |299Used as BLW plant switcher
style="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |62300to Reading 60
rowspan=3 |Baldwin Locomotive Works (demonstrator)style="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |335first production VO-660; to Standard Steel Division of Baldwin Locomotive Works 12, to Altoona Railroaders Museum, to SMS Rail Lines, under restoration to active service
style="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |336to Elgin, Joliet and Eastern 270
style="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |337to Central of Georgia Railway
Akron and Barberton Belt Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |25
American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO)style="text-align:center;" |4style="text-align:center;" |1950–1953
American Steel and Wire Companystyle="text-align:center;" |3style="text-align:center;" |1, 11, 23-1
Basic Magnesium, Inc.style="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |1000
Central Railroad of New Jerseystyle="text-align:center;" |4style="text-align:center;" |1040–1043
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |110
Chicago and North Western Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |10style="text-align:center;" |1237–1246
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (“Milwaukee Road”)style="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |1649Renumbered 1635, later renumbered 985
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway (“Omaha Road”)style="text-align:center;" |3style="text-align:center;" |58, 59, 68
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |9style="text-align:center;" |66–74
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |2style="text-align:center;" |271, 272
Francisco Sugar Company, (Cuba)style="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |45
Iowa Ordnance Plantstyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |2-100to US War Dept 7276
Kansas City Southern Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |1150
La Salle and Bureau County Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |6
Long Island Rail Roadstyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |403
Louisville and Nashville Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |4style="text-align:center;" |20–23
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |600Renumbered 60
Minnesota Western Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |1to MNS 1
Missouri Pacific Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |4style="text-align:center;" |9009, 9010, 9012, 9026
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |10
New Orleans Public Belt Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |3style="text-align:center;" |41–43
New York Central Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |12style="text-align:center;" |501–502, 752–761501–502 renumbered 750–751
Northern Pacific Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |3style="text-align:center;" |128–130Renumbered 650–652
Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |3style="text-align:center;" |63–65Renumbered 301–303
Pennsylvania Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |12style="text-align:center;" |5907–5909, 5932–5937, 5941–5943
Procter and Gamblestyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |125Used at Port Ivory, Staten Island, NY
Reading Companystyle="text-align:center;" |10style="text-align:center;" |61–70
St. Louis-San Francisco Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |2style="text-align:center;" |600–601
Seaboard Air Line Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |1202
Singer Manufacturing Companystyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |2to Pickens Railway #2, stored out of service on line
Southern Pacific Companystyle="text-align:center;" |2style="text-align:center;" |1021–1022
Southern Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |DS2005
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louisstyle="text-align:center;" |4style="text-align:center;" |531–534
Union Terminal Railway of Memphis (Missouri Pacific Railroad)style="text-align:center;" |2style="text-align:center;" |9090–9091
United States Navystyle="text-align:center;" |6style="text-align:center;" |10, 11, 15, 16, 18, 31
Upper Merion and Plymouth Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |2style="text-align:center;" |51–52
Wabash Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |200
Warner Companystyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |11to New Hope & Ivyland 395, to SMS Rail Lines 11; under restoration
Western Maryland Railwaystyle="text-align:center;" |4style="text-align:center;" |101, 103–105
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Companystyle="text-align:center;" |1style="text-align:center;" |10
Wyandotte Terminal Railroadstyle="text-align:center;" |3style="text-align:center;" |101–103103 preserved at Illinois Railway Museum
Youngstown Sheet and Tubestyle="text-align:center;" |8style="text-align:center;" |600–607
Total143

References

  • {{cite book|author=Pinkepank, Jerry A.|title=The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide|publisher=Kalmbach Publishing Co|location=Milwaukee, WI|year=1973|isbn=0-89024-026-4}}

External links

  • [http://thedieselshop.us/BLW_VO660.HTML Baldwin VO-660 Roster]
  • [http://thedieselshop.us/BLWdemo.HTML BLW Demonstrators, Prototypes and Test Beds]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028054328/http://www.geocities.com/wbd641/CKDPrahaBaldwin.html CKD Praha 6S310DR diesel engine, and the Baldwin VO and 600 series engines]
  • [http://yardlimit.railfan.net/baldwin/existing-vo/ Existing Baldwin VO Model Units]
  • [http://thedieselshop.us/PRSVDbaldwin.HTML Preserved Baldwin and Lima Locomotives]
  • [http://prr.railfan.net/diagrams/PRRdiagrams.html?diag=bs-6_E425018k.gif&sel=die&sz=sm&fr= PRR Diesel Locomotive diagrams: Baldwin VO-660]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060106103533/http://users.inna.net/~jaydeet/vo-660.htm VO-660 — Original Owners]
  • [http://www.irm.org/cgi-bin/rsearch.cgi?diesel=Wyandotte+Terminal+Railroad=103 Illinois Railway Museum roster page for Wyandotte Terminal 103]

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