Baldwin 4-8+8-4-750/8-DE

The Baldwin 4-8+8-4 750/8DE was the Baldwin Locomotive Works' first attempt at building a road diesel locomotive, a single experimental demonstrator that Baldwin built in 1943 as the unit numbered 6000 and nicknamed the Centipede. Its trucks were arranged 2-D+D-2. The design used power packages, each an engine with generator, radiator and electrical cabinet, that could be swapped in about 20 minutes. It was meant to carry eight packages but only four were fitted, each engine driving a single axle. The unit was tested on the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio and the Reading, then dismantled soon after production, and its running gear was reused for the Seaboard Air Line prototype 4500.