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 ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA, April 21.--Two hundred employes of the Baldwin Locomotive-works have been discharged owing to lack of orders, and the remaining men are to work on twothirds time during the next 30 days.