Baldwin AS-416

The Baldwin AS-416, sold by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton as the BLH AS-416, was a 1,625 horsepower diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type. It rode on three-axle trucks in an A1A-A1A wheel arrangement, which spread the axle load for operation on light rail such as branch lines, and it was used in much the same way as its four-axle counterpart, the AS-16. Introduced in 1950 as the replacement for the DRS-6-4-1500, it stayed in the catalog until the company stopped building locomotives in 1956. Only 25 were sold to four railroads, all of which had bought the earlier model, and the original Norfolk Southern Railway took 17 of them. Two survive, one in Illinois and one in North Carolina.