Book ID: CBB166852383

Baldwin: Fifty years at Eddystone. Book 1: 1906-1939, The Baldwin Locomotive Works at Eddystone, 1906-1956 (2014)

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Trostel, Scott D. (Author)


Cam-Tech Publishing


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: First volume of proposed two-volume series.
Physical Details: vii + 152 pp.
Language: English

This volume is the first of two that explores The Baldwin Locomotive Works at its massive facilities in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Baldwin is synonymous with steam railroad locomotive construction. It was a single site manufacturing plant until the upturn of business in 1906, when expanded foundry and machining capacity became necessary. Instead of attempting to buy ground somewhere in the immediate Philadelphia neighborhood and build another multi-story building, they bought the abandoned Gunsen Iron Foundry at Eddystone, Pennsylvania, twelve miles south. The foundry and 180 acres of pasture land comprised the first modest investment in what would become a 600 acre manufacturing complex. It was a gem in a highly concentrated manufacturing center on the Delaware River.

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Authors & Contributors
Solomon, Brian
White, John H., Jr.
Piltz, Raymond A.
Bush, John E.
Robert L. Frey
Bender, Henry E.
Concepts
Land transportation
Railroads
Locomotives, steam
Photography of railroads
Manufacturing
Locomotives, Diesel
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
Philadelphia, PA
Wyoming (U.S.)
England
Arizona (U.S.)
North America
Institutions
American Locomotive Company (Alco)
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Reading Railroad
New York Central Railroad Company
McCloud River Railroad Company
Great Northern Railway Company
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