Staid Baldwin Locomotive Co. had dozed at the switch. Once it made nearly half of all U.S. locomotives, but in the last five years its share of business has dropped to less than 10%. Unwilling to ...

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

Burnham, Williams & Co. (proprietors) ; Standard Steel Works Co. ; Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. ; Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. Description of locomotives exhibit at the International Universal ...

Matthias W. Baldwin founded Baldwin Locomotive Works in his tiny shop in Lodge Alley, Philadelphia in 1831. His first locomotive, “Old Ironsides,” weighed five tons, had to be taken out of the shop ...

Helen Cavanaugh of Hazle Street, Ashley, christened the 4,500 horsepower Diesel locomotive of the Central Railroad in honor of her son, Seaman First Class Joseph P. Cavanaugh, who lost his life in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The “Jupiter” steam locomotive was ...