Founded in l830, the Philadelphia-based Baldwin Locomotive Works grew into the world's largest steam locomotive builder. Baldwin locomotives ruled the rails of countries large and small in North and ...

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 ...

Baldwin Locomotive announces plans to build a plant in East Chicago, setting off a scramble for land. Baldwin buys 375 acres in Calumet-Kennedy Land Co. subdivision, now known as East Calumet. Baldwin ...

The dissolution of a longstanding partnership between Steamtown National Historic Site and a rail preservation group spearheading the restoration of a historic locomotive in the park’s collection ...

When red freight-car corpuscles are flowing through the arteries of U.S. business, the plants of three great companies are filled with the crash of hydraulic forges, the pounding of hundreds of ...