The Baldwin DRS-4-4-1000 was a
diesel-electricroad switcher produced by the
Baldwin Locomotive Works from July, 1948–March, 1950. The units featured a 1,000 horsepower (750 kW), six-cylinder
prime mover, and were configured in a
B-B wheel arrangement mounted atop a pair of two-axle
AAR Type-B road
trucks, with all axles powered. They had a cast steel frame. The units were configured to normally run with the long hood in the forward position.
Only 9 were built for
American railroads, with another 13 manufactured in January and February, 1949 by the
Canadian Locomotive Company for the
Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway, the first railroad in
Canada to dieselize its locomotive fleet. The DRS-4-4-1000 was (in most cases) visually indistinguishable from its 1,200 horsepower (890 kW) successor, the
RS-12. Only one intact example of the DRS-4-4-1000 is known to exist today (former CPR #8000), and is currently on display in
Squamish, British Columbia.
Units produced by Baldwin Locomotive Works (1948–1950)