The BLH S8 was an diesel–electric switcher locomotive. The Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation produced a total of 63 units (61 for United States railroads and 2 for use in Cuba) between 1951 and 1953. Of these, nine were calf units built for Oliver Iron Mining Company in Minnesota. A tenth calf had been built for them on order, but when delivery was refused, it was fitted with a cab, and converted to a regular S8.
Original owners Railroad Quantity Road numbers Notes American Rolling Mill Company 3 1151, 1152, 1201 Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad 1 102 La Salle and Bureau County Railroad 1 8 McCloud Railway 1 31 Built with a single stack and space for a turbocharger for later conversion to a S-12, so is factored into the numbers of (and considered to be) an S-12 Medford Corporation, (Medford, Oregon) 1 8 Only Baldwin switcher built with dynamic brakes New Orleans Public Belt Railroad 2 50, 51 Oliver Iron Mining Company 9 1200A–1206A, 1214A, 1215A "Cow" units9 1200B–1206B, 1214B, 1215B "Calf" units Pennsylvania Railroad 6 8994–8999 Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines 1 6006 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 5 802–806 Sharon Steel Corporation 8 3–10 Sloss-Sheffield Steel 4 33–36 United Railways of Havana, Cuba 2 8001, 8002 US Pipe and Foundry 1 37 Build as "calf"; fitted with cab before sale to USP&F US Steel 1 13 Weyerhaeuser Company 2 103, 105 Youngstown Sheet and Tube 7 703, 800–805 Totals 54 A units 9 B units
Preservation Only two intact examples of the S-8 are known to survive today.
• Medford Corp. #8 is preserved by the Southern Oregon Railway Historical Society in Medford, Oregon.
• US Pipe & Foundry #37 is preserved as Jefferson Warrior #37 at the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum in Calera, Alabama.
References
External links Baldwin S-8 Preserved Baldwin and Lima Locomotives S-8 — Original Owners