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 ...

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 ...

Two gentlemen of Detroit, in Manhattan last week, were the victims of a Philadelphia mis-understanding. They, C. R. Bitting and R. F. Shields, had gone to Phil-adelphia early in the week expecting to ...

Tanks, nurses and doctors tending to the wounded and items such as Baldwin locomotives being unloaded off ships are among seldom seen photos of every aspect of the American participation in World War ...

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 locomotive in Pioneer Park is Thunder Lake Lumber Company No. 5, better known as the 5 Spot, and this year it turned 100 ...

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ABILENE — In an effort to get it back on track as soon as possible, a 1919 steam engine, now owned and used by the Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad, is undergoing a major overhaul, with volunteers ...