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In the early 1960s the Reading Company sent 14 of their VO-1000s to General Motors Electro-Motive Division to have them rebuilt to SW900 specifications. " Beep" at the Western America Railroad Museum in 2012. However, a VO-1000m is owned by the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, a local freight carrier based out of Schellville, California. There are at least eight intact examples of the VO-1000 that are known to survive today, most of which are owned by museums or historical societies. 548 examples of this model were built for American railroads, including examples for the Army and Navy.īetween June and August 1945 Baldwin supplied 30 Co-Co road locomotives with 8-cylinder VO engines for export to the Soviet Union as their Дб20 (Db20) class. These were either the AAR Type-A switcher trucks, or the Batz truck originally developed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as a leading truck for steam locomotives. The 236,260–242,200 lb (107,170–109,860 kg) units were powered by a normally aspirated eight- cylinder diesel engine rated at 1,000 horsepower (746 kW), and rode on a pair of two-axle trucks in a B-B wheel arrangement.
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The Baldwin VO-1000 is a diesel-electric locomotive ( switcher) built by Baldwin Locomotive Works between January 1939 and December 1946.