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Charles E. Brinley (left), Chairman of the Board of Baldwin, and A. K. Galloway, General Superintendent of Motive Power and Equipment, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in the cab. THE most recent entry in the field of diesel- electric power for main line freight and pas- senger service is a Baldwin-Westinghouse unit of 2,000-hp capacity which can be operated singly for light service, or used in combination with similar units to form a 4,000-hp or a 6,000-hp locomotive. This latest addition gives Baldwin-Westinghouse a complete line of diesel-electric power covering |
the entire horsepower range normally required in railroad service. It includes 660-hp and 1,000-hp locomotives for switching and transfer service, 1,500-hp locomotives for light road and transfer service and the new road locomotives up to 6,000 horsepower. The Baldwin Locomotive Works and Westing- house Electric Corporation have been cooper- ating in the design and production of straight electric locomotives for almost half a century. They were pioneers in this field, having con- structed the locomotives used by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad when they in- augurated the first major railroad electrification in the United States, in the year 1907. The knowledge of railroad problems gained in the construction of thousands of Baldwin steam locomotives and the combined experience of Bald- |
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