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	Baldwin Locomotive Works - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthias W. Baldwin, the founder, was a jeweller and silversmith, who, in 1825, formed a partnership with a machinist, and engaged in the manufacture of bookbinders' tools and cylinders for calico printing.
		Baldwin then designed and constructed for his own use a small stationary engine, the workmanship of which was so excellent and its efficiency so great that he was solicited to build others like it for various parties, and thus led to turn his attention to steam engineering.
		Baldwin built the first GG1 prototype electric locomotive for use on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s electrified line that was completed in 1935 between New York and Washington, DC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baldwin_Locomotive_Works (1159 words)

	Baldwin Locomotive Works -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American builder of (A line of track providing a runway for wheels) railroad (A wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks) locomotives.
		Baldwin built the first GG1 prototype electric locomotive for use on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s electrified line that was completed in 1935 between New York and (Click link for more info and facts about Washington, DC) Washington, DC.
		Baldwins, thanks to their hefty Westinghouse electrical equipment, were good heavy haulers, but the engines were less reliable than the (Click link for more info and facts about EMD) EMD and even (Click link for more info and facts about ALCO) ALCO competition.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Ba/Baldwin_Locomotive_Works.htm (1087 words)

	AMERICAN INDUSTRIES—Baldwin Locomotive Works — May 31, 1884
		Matthias W. Baldwin, the founder, was a jeweler and silversmith, who, in 1825, formed a partnership with a machinist, and engaged in the manufacture of bookbinders' tools and cylinders for calico printing.
		Baldwin obtained a patent for a cast brass wheel, his idea being that by varying the hardness of the metal the adhesion of the drivers on the rail could be increased or diminished.
		An independent department of the works, having a separate foreman and a force of skilled workmen, with special tools, is organized as the department of standard gauges, where gauges and templets for every description of work are made and kept.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/blw01.Html (1727 words)

	The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915
		The Baldwin partners understood that locomotive building was a risky business, and they diluted this risk by relying on outside suppliers for capital, by forming financial allegiances with banking houses and with the railroads themselves, by making extensive use of the inside contracting system, and by relying on collusion and price-fixing.
		Baldwin exhibited a particularly strong sensitivity to this issue, because varying business cycles called for hiring binges followed by massive layoffs; yet the technical complexity of steam locomotives required the company to maintain a cadre of skilled and loyal workers.
		Locomotive orders peaked in 1906 and, after this date, Baldwin's producer culture was ill-equipped to respond to a combination of a hostile regulatory climate and an increasing pace of technological innovation.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0013.shtml (951 words)

	Encyclopedia: Baldwin Locomotive Works
		A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks.
		Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-8-8-2 is a Cab Forward type locomotive with four leading wheels, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a two-wheel trailing truck.
		East German E 18 electric locomotives of the Deutsche Reichsbahn An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electric motors which draws current from an overhead wire, a third rail, or an on-board storage device such as a battery or a flywheel energy storage system.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Baldwin-Locomotive-Works (2632 words)

	Baldwin #60,000
		Locomotive 60,000, the subject of the present publication, was designed and built by The Baldwin Loco-motive Works as an experiment to ascertain the gain in efficiency by the use of high pressure steam and high ratios of expansion.
		Locomotive Number 60,000: This illustration shows the general arrangement of the cylinders and steam chests, and also of the two valve motions on the right-hand side, which control the steam distribution to the center and right-hand cylinders respectively.
		Through the courtesy of the Pennsylvania Railroad the locomotive was submitted to an extensive program of tests on their locomotive test plant at Altoona, and it was subsequently given road tests on this line and on a number of other prominent railroads.
	www.cwrr.com /Lounge/Reference/baldwin/baldwin.html (458 words)

	Baldwin Centipede - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Baldwin Centipede was the Baldwin Locomotive Works' first serious attempt at a production main-line diesel locomotive.
		The Baldwin type designation was DR-12-8-1500/2 meaning a diesel road locomotive, with 12 axles, 8 of which were driven, and two engines of 1,500hp each.
		The locomotive body rode on two massive cast steel half-frames cast by General Steel Castings, linked at the middle with a hinged joint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baldwin_Centipede (275 words)

	THE BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS — 1912--Mallet Articulated Locomotives
		In the case of the locomotives for the Virginian Railway and the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway, the single pipe in the water heater is replaced by a nest of small tubes, which provide considerable reheating surface.
		In a locomotive of this type, it is not necessary to have sliding supports under the forward part of the boiler; and the locomotive curves with a minimum amount of resistance, and its stability, when traversing a curve, is not affected.
		This joint as usually arranged on Mallet locomotives built by The Baldwin Locomotive Works, is provided with a crosshead, which is placed between the inner walls of the high-pressure cylinder saddle; and is so arranged that the reach rod can accommodate itself to the swing of the front frames when the engine is traversing curves.
	catskillhistory.com /rrextra/blwmal00.Html (4227 words)

	Steamtown Operating Locomotives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Locomotive #514 rolled out of the La Grange, IL locomotive works of the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in 1958, putting it near the end of the production run of the famous GP-9 locomotives ("GP" designates a General Purpose locomotive, and "9" was the model number).
		On April 5, 1985, the locomotive was signed over to the Steamtown Foundation in Scranton, PA, as part of a trade which gave the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia, clear title to the A-class steam locomotive NandW #1218.
		The locomotive is undergoing heavy repairs and restoration in the Steamtown Locomotive Shop (many of the pictures on the "Unusual Scenes at Steamtown" page, and its archive pages, show work on this locomotive) with initial work being done under contract with the LandWVRHS.
	www.nps.gov /stea/oploc.htm (1336 words)

	Baldwin Locomotive Works
		The C&O #2217 is one of several six-axle Baldwin roadswitchers on short-term lease to the B&LE while the railroad waits on the delivery of new 2000 horsepower SDs from EMD.
		With the NYC and Pennsylvania RR merger, the Baldwins were renumbered into a consolidated Penn Central numbering scheme.
		By August 1965 when this picture was taken, the number of Lima-built locomotives still operating on the NYC -- or for that matter on any railroad -- had dwindled.
	www.ole.net /~rcraig/Bphotos.html (185 words)

	Technology, Invention, and Innovation collections
		Baldwin had been forced by hard financial times to take on a series of partners between 1839 and 1846, and the firm's name changed repeatedly as a result.
		It was known as Baldwin, Vail and Hufty (1839-1842); Baldwin and Whitney (1842-1845); M. Baldwin (1846-1853); and M. Baldwin and Co. (1854).
		After Baldwin's death in 1867 the firm was known as M. Baird and Co. (1867-1873); Burnham, Parry, Williams and Co. (1873-1890); Burnham, Williams and Co. (1891-1909); it was finally incorporated as the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1909.
	americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8353.htm (492 words)

	Technology, Invention, and Innovation collections
		Baldwin turned out its first locomotive engine from its shop in Philadelphia in 1832; within a few years the company was producing two a month and employed 240 men.
		It was known as Baldwin, Vail and Hufty (1839-1842); Baldwin and Whitney (1842-1845); M. Baldwin (1846-1853); and M. Baldwin and Co. (1854-1866).
		After Baldwin's death in 1866 the firm was known as M. Baird and Co. (1867-1873); Burnham, Parry, Williams and Co. (1873-1890); Burnham, Williams and Co. (1891-1909); it was finally incorporated as the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1909.
	americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8157.htm (554 words)

	New Mexico Trains, History of the AT&SF Railroad in 1890's
		To operate on this section of track, the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1878 built a consolidation locomotive of exceptional power, which then, was the largest engine constructed in the practice of the Works.
		This locomotive bore the road number 204, and was named "Uncle Dick." It had cylinders twenty inches in diameter by twenty-six inches stroke; the driving wheels being forty-two inches in diameter.
		These were the first locomotives built by the Baldwin Works to have cast steel frames, which had largely been used by John Player, then Superintendent of Motive Power, and which were specified by him.
	www.huntel.com /~artpike/trains12.htm (1145 words)

	HOW A LOCOMOTIVE IS BUILT — 1907--Baldwin Locomotive Works
		The steam-engines which aid them in their work have the power of 12,138 horses; the electric-motors, that of 14,200; the oil-engines, that of 4,850—a total equal to the power of 31,188 horses, or of twice the number of mounts used by all of the cavalrymen and mounted officers of our army.
		For modern Vauclain compound locomotives, the high and low pressure cylinders and steam chest for one side are cast together with half the "'saddle"—the forked support of the boiler.
		At the final destination he is met by one of the corps of expert locomotive engineers regularly employed by the Baldwin works, and this new custodian stays with the engine on the purchasing road until it gives perfect satisfaction.
	www.catskillhistory.com /rrextra/bldloco.Html (5171 words)

	The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System Baldwin Locomotive Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		To operate on this section of track the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1878, built a consolidation locomotive of exceptional power, which at that date, was the largest engine constructed in the practice of the Works.
		A similar locomotive, having single-expansion cylinders twenty-four inches in diameter, was built in 1904; but those since constructed have all, with one exception, been fitted with tandem compound cylinders.
		The exception referred to is a locomotive built in 1905, which is equipped with a smokebox superheater and single-expansion cylinders thirty-two inches in diameter; the boiler pressure being 140 pounds.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/blatsf.Html (3792 words)

	Programming Tutorials - Books : The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915 : A Study in American Industrial Practice ...
		The largest maker of heavy machinery in Gilded Age America and an important global exporter, the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia achieved renown as one of the nation's most successful and important firms.
		The Baldwin Locomotive Works was the dominant Locomotive manufacturer and capital equipment maker in the U.S. during the Gilded Age.
		Baldwin was the premier locomotive manufacturer and ranked at the top of American industry for sixty years.
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	Molossia National Railroad - Locomotives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On semi permanent loan from the nearby Virginia and Truckee Railroad, Number 25 is a Baldwin 10-Wheeler built in 1905.
		Much like the 2-8-0 Consolidation, the 4-6-0 was a go-anywhere, do-anything locomotive that carried freight and passenger cars, and was also used for industrial applications.
		The 4-6-0s were utilized throughout the steam era, with some locomotives seeing use in the American South as late as the 1950's.
	www.molossia.org /railroad/railloco.html (345 words)

	Steamtown NHS: Special History Study
		Baldwin had built many locomotives at the Eddystone plant since 1910, but it was not until October 1929 that the company moved all locomotive production there from its cramped Philadelphia shops.
		One may surmise that the little 0-6-0 was retained by the company for work in enlarging the Eddystone plant for its absorption 7 months later of all of Baldwin's locomotive production.
		However, the locomotive remained in Ohio while the Steamtown Foundation transferred its collection to the National Park Service and went out of business, and it was not until January 1990 that the locomotive arrived in Scranton.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/steamtown/shs2a.htm (1090 words)

	Baldwin Locomotive Works/Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Like Alco, Baldwin was a steam builder early on, but made their move into the diesel market with a line of switchers before moving to road units after World War 2.
		Baldwin was located at Eddystone, PA, outside of Philadelphia, and along a Pennsy line, hence the railroad's early preferences for units from this builder.
		While Baldwin switchers were well-known for their lugging ability, the company failed to make the jump to building reliable road units, and even after their takeover of Lima-Hamilton failed to gather enough market share to make a go of things.
	www.pittsburgh.org /~shadow/prr-diesels/baldwin.html (103 words)

	PA State Archives - MG-427 - Series Descriptions - Baldwin Locomotive Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In one case, it is noted that a locomotive was "lost at sea" and another had to be built to replace it.
		Entries for each locomotive show name of purchaser, date of trial, construction number, name of locomotive, class, gauge, diameter of wheels, number of tender wheels, capacity of tender tank, cylinder diameter and strokes, type of material for flues and furnace, type of fuel and the number for the year.
		As the art of locomotive design was constantly changing with improvements in metallurgy and manufacturing techniques, these standards were continually being revised, and for this reason, were not to be distributed outside of the engineering department.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/mg/sd/m427sd.htm (6571 words)

	Baldwin Brass Hardware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Baldwin’s exquisite line of solid brass lanterns now features The Lifetime Finish guaranteed to remain free from tarnish, discoloration and pitting.
		Baldwin home accessories offer the quiet elegance and exceptional design that define a true classic.
		Baldwin's Christmas ornament collection captures the joy of the season, 24 kt.
	www.baldwinbrasshardware.com (463 words)

	Baldwin Locomotive Works
		Baldwin used a nomenclature in naming its engine classes that allowed you to derive number of wheels, diameter of cylinders, number of total wheels and whether the truck was leading or trailing.
		Because Baldwin supplied builders photos in its catalog for only the major classes, this is how they are listed and organized in the archive.
		Within major classes, a separate builders photo was provided for engines with different arrangements for fuel and water.
	www.ironhorse129.com /Prototype/SteamClass2004/BaldwinHome.htm (237 words)

	PA State Archives - MG-422 - Scope and Content Note - Herbert Broadbelt Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Herbert L. Broadbelt was an employee of the Baldwin Locomotive Works who collected these materials which include approximately 17,500 negative and positive photographs, 3,500 statistical cards, menus, drawings, leaflets, circulars, rosters and indices created for marketing locomotives.
		.The M.W. Baldwin Company was founded in Philadelphia 1831 as a jewelery firm and later manufactured, in partnership with David Mason, bookbinder's tools and steam-driven cylinders used for printing calico cloth.
		By the time construction was phased out in the early 1950s, Baldwin had built more steam locomotives than any other institution in the world.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /bah/dam/mg/mg422.htm (327 words)

	Geared Steam Locomotive Works - Shay Heisler Climax Dunkirk Baldwin Willamette Bell Davenport Dewey More...
		geared locomotives were the "4 wheel drive" versions of their cousins, the "rod" locomotives.
		The geared locomotives were lighter, smaller, and had geared transmissions to provide steady, constant power to all wheels or drivers (as they are known in the railroad world).
		Unlike passengers or freight transported on the mainline railroads serviced by the "rod" locomotives, the logs and rocks didn't care how bumpy or uncomfortable the ride was.
	www.gearedsteam.com (431 words)

	Old Chester, PA: Business: Baldwin Locomotive
		He went to work for the Baldwin Company as an inspector around 1910.
		Baldwin Locomotive Works was established by Matthias W. Baldwin in 1831.
		August Zimath, was a flsmith at BLH sometime in the 30's, and worked on the large wheels on the locomotive in the Franklin Institute.
	www.oldchesterpa.com /baldwin.htm (709 words)

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