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The Baldwin Locomotive Works was founded in 1831 by Matthias Baldwin. The original plant was on Broad Street in Philadelphia, PA where the company did business for 71 years until it moved in 1912 to a new plant in Eddystone. Various partnerships during this period resulted in a number of name changes; it was finally incorporated as the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1909. Baldwin made its reputation building steam locomotives for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the Atchison, and many other railroads in North America and for overseas railroads in England, France, India, Haiti and Egypt. In the late 1940's it was very clear that the steam locomotive days were over and each of the big three steam locomotive builders were far behind EMD with diesel designs and customers. Lima merged with engine builder Hamilton in an effort to get a foot hold in the diesel market but made little progress. In desperation Lima-Hamilton merged with Baldwin in 1950 to become the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation. However, by 1956 BLH ceased production of locomotives. (Source: SteamLocomotive.com). In 1965 Baldwin became a wholly owned subsidiary of Armour and Company, which was itself purchased by Greyhound Corporation in 1970. Greyhound closed Baldwin-Lima for good in 1972. (Source: Wikipedia). Baldwin was an important contributor to the Allied war effort in World War I. Baldwin built 5,551 locomotives for the Allies including separate designs for Russian, French, British and United States Trench railways. Baldwin built railway gun carriages for the United States Navy and manufactured six million artillery shells for Russia, England and the United States. From 1915 to 1918, Remington Arms subcontracted the production of nearly 2 million Pattern 1914 Enfield and M1917 Enfield rifles to the Baldwin Locomotive Works. (Source: Wikipedia). During World War II Baldwin became involved in the manufacture of large armoured vehicles. Baldwin built the M3, M3A2, M3A3 and M3A5 medium tanks in 1941 and 1942.
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1: “Stored in this large war plant are huge piles of finish...
Taken: May 1942 Contributor: US Library of Congress Location Photo ID: 376 Added: 31 December 2010 Views: 996 Has Priority: 0
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2: Baldwin Locomotive Works
Taken: 1905 (Estimated) Contributor: US Library of Congress Location Photo ID: 377 Added: 31 December 2010 Views: 210 Has Priority: 0
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