The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad (railway) locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Although the company was very successful as a producer of steam locomotives, its transition to the production of diesels was far less so. Later, when the early demand for diesel locomotives to replace steam tapered off, Baldwin could not compete in the marketplace. It stopped producing locomotives in 1956 and went out of business in 1972.
This company is not to be confused with E M Baldwin of Australia who made small locomotives for such things as sugar cane tramways.
Read more about Baldwin Locomotive Works: Beginning, Early Years, 1860-1870, Street Railways / Tramway Steam Motors, Gilded Age, War Effort, Decline, World War II, End, Later Steam Locomotives, Narrow Gauge and Non Conventional, Electric Locomotives, Steam-turbine Locomotives, Diesel-electric Locomotives
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