Founded in l830, the Philadelphia-based Baldwin Locomotive Works grew into the world's largest steam locomotive builder.

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The first Baldwin locomotive (third in the U. S.) was born by a Caesarean operation. In 1832, when ex-Philadelphia Jeweler Matthias W. Baldwin finished work on “Old Ironsides,” his first born ...

The gestation period of an Iron Horse is about four months, yet the three companies can easily turn out a total of 2,000 locomotives yearly. In the past year the three companies—Baldwin ...

the Matthias Baldwin Locomotive Works, was an incongruous target of such protests. As his entry in the 1899 National Cyclopaedia of American Biography noted, Baldwin's racial outlook was unusually ...

Housed in the main showroom at the Nevada State Railroad Museum on South Carson Street, the steam-powered, standard-gauge locomotive was built in 1913 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia.

A 106-year-old steam locomotive that has worked across three continents has been restored to haul heritage trains in Gwynedd. The narrow gauge tank engine was built by the Baldwin locomotive ...

Locomotive service #464 was built in 1903 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, according to Genesee County Parks website. For those interested in working on the ...