Chesapeake Western No. 661

Chesapeake Western No. 661 was a DS-4-4-600 Baldwin diesel switcher that operated on the western Virginia shortline railway known as the Chesapeake Western Railroad.
== History ==
No. 661 built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, PA in 1946. The engine was one of three diesel-electrics (along with No. 662 and 663) placed into service on December 2, 1946. The three of them were amongst the first wave of diesel locomotives ordered for the Chesapeake Western to aid the railway in transitioning from steam to diesel power. 
The three DS 4-4-660 locomotives were retired from service in 1964 and were replaced by Alco T-6s. No. 661 was cut up for scrap while its siblings, Nos. 662 and 663, wound up in the Virginia Scrap Iron & Metal Co. scrap yard in Roanoke, VA, where they sat rusting for over forty years along with four Norfolk & Western steam locomotives (Nos. 917, 1118, 1134, and 1151) becoming part of a small collection known as the "Lost Engines of Roanoke."
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