5050 x 3360 px | 42,8 x 28,4 cm | 16,8 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
10. August 2009
Ort:
The Northwest Railway Museum, 38625 SE King Street, Snoqualmie, Washington.
Weitere Informationen:
Image of a Baldwin B-L-H RS-4TC diesel-electric locomotive preserved at the Northwest Railway Museum. Snoqualmie Valley Railroad, locomotive number 4024, B-L-H 1954 RS-4TC Ex-U.S. Army #4024. Purchased 2001 from General Services Administration. Operable. [US Air Force]. The Baldwin RS-4-TC is a diesel-electric switcher locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works between July 1953 and January 1955. The RS-4-TCs were powered by a supercharged twelve-cylinder diesel engine rated at 400 horsepower (298 kW), and rode on a pair of two-axle trucks in a B-B wheel arrangement. 74 of these models were built mainly for the Army while a few of them went to the Air Force. The RS-4-TCs were originally built with Caterpillar D397 diesel engines. The Caterpillar D397s were chosen for their high speed and small bore and stroke for quick startup and shutdowns. There are two number systems for the RS-4-TCs, the 1200 series or the 4000 series. The locomotives in both series were the same, except the 1200s were built for domestic service and had fix axle, standard gauge trucks while the 4000s were built for foreign service and had multi gauge trucks for use on foreign narrow and wide gauge tracks. Even though the 4000s were built for foreign service, very few were actually deployed overseas, the vast majority served in the United States. The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad (railway) locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Although the company was very successful as a producer of steam locomotives, it was unable to make the transition to diesel power. It stopped producing locomotives in 1956 and went out of business in 1972
