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Baldwin Locomotive Works manufactured Steam Dummy or Steam Motors for many American tramways and exported to places such as Australia and New Zealand, where two both built in 1891 survive at Museums today.
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Baldwin Locomotive Works became the world's largest by the early 1900s and built the most powerful steam locos in history.
Baldwin Locomotive Works | Baldwin's Montezuma, 1871, The first locomotive built for the Denver & Rio Grande.
Major corporations in the 19th and early 20th centuries included the Baldwin Locomotive Works, William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad.
* Baldwin Locomotive Works, one of the world's largest builders of steam locomotives in the 19th and 20th centuries
On display are a 1902 Baldwin Locomotive, a Southern Pacific tender, a 1910 Union Pacific caboose, and a Santa Fe caboose.
It was the site of the largest Baldwin Locomotive Works plant ( the smaller being in Spring Garden, Philadelphia ).
* Baldwin Locomotive Works
*" La Negra Cocola " 0-4-2T Baldwin Steam Locomotive on static display in town plaza
Philadelphia's major industries of the era were the Baldwin Locomotive Works, William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad.
* The " Inyo ", a 4-4-0 steam locomotive built for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad ( V & T # 22 ) in 1875 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, appeared in both the Golden Spike ceremony scene in " Union Pacific " ( 1939 ) and in the 1960s TV series The Wild Wild West.
A number of steam locomotives were built for the line by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, all rack-only locomotives with steeply inclined boilers to keep them level on the average 16 % grades.
Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's plate, 1922
Historical marker commemorating the founding of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in the Franklintown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Franklintown area of the Spring Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Spring Garden neighborhood, Philadelphia.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad ( railway ) locomotives.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works had a humble beginning.
Zerah Colburn was one of many engineers who had a close association with the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
According to John K. Brown in The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915: A Study in American Industrial Practice, at the start of the conflict Baldwin had a great dependence on Southern railways as its primary market.
By the time Matthias Baldwin died in 1866, his company was vying with Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works for the top spot among locomotive producers.
Despite this boom, Baldwin faced many challenges including the constraints of space in the Philadelphia facility, inflation, increased labor costs, the substantial increase in the size of the locomotives being manufactured, labor tensions, and the formation of the American Locomotive Company, an aggressive competitor which eventually became known simply as ( ALCO ).
Even so, many Baldwin Steamers and Diesels still prowl the worlds trackage today, with builders plates proudly proclaiming " Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, USA ".
Baldwin Locomotive Works built steam engines for narrow-gauge railways as well.
* Baldwin Locomotive Works collection ( engine registers and order books ) 1833-1956 Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
* Baldwin Locomotive Works drawings, 1870-1890 Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Baldwin and Works
He continued as First Commissioner of Works and Minister of Transport also when Stanley Baldwin became Prime Minister in May 1923 and held them until January 1924, when Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government took office.
* The Baldwin Locomotive Works Records, 1825-1869, including correspondence, accounts, diagrams and illustrations, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
* Baldwin Locomotive Works: Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives, 1871 is located at the Special Collections / Digital Library in Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University.
Baldwin and manufactured
The prototypes and design were sold to Baldwin who made some modifications, and then manufactured the instrument under their own name.
After Baldwin folded, CLC became a licensee of Fairbanks-Morse and manufactured a number of F-M designs for the Canadian market, including the famous Train Master.
For studio applications he also uses a 9-foot Baldwin grand piano, Yamaha KX-88 and SY77 keyboards and a variety of effect and sound generation modules manufactured by Roland Corporation and others.
These were 4-4-0 type steam locomotives manufactured by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* March 19 – Baldwin Locomotive Works completes the last locomotive commercially manufactured for Maine narrow gauge railroads.
Baldwin and Steam
Pilot of a 1911 Baldwin Steam engine at the Texas Transportation Museum
As well as Railway Locomotives, Baldwin built Street Tramway Steam Motors in large numbers for operators in the United States and worldwide.
Baldwin 11676 of 1891 NSWGT No. 103 Valley Heights Steam Tramway, New South Wales, Australia.
Other Baldwin Steam Motor operators included:
* Preserved Baldwin Steam Locomotives
The line was originally operated with Baldwin Steam Tram Motors, but these proved unsatisfactory and small 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotives were then used.
This line was designed by long term Lone Star employee Stuart Goss, and followed in 1960 by " Treble-0-Lectric " electrically powered working models of two British diesel locomotives: The Class 24 Sulzer Type 2 diesel, the Class 23 Napier Type 2 " Baby Deltic " diesel, an American Baldwin 0-8-0 Steam Locomotive and an F7 US Diesel Electric loco which was available in both US and Canadian liveries.
Baldwin and Motors
Once dominant in North American diesel locomotive production having seen Baldwin, Fairbanks-Morse, Lima, Hamilton, Alco, MLW and CLC all fall by the wayside, General Motors fell under intense competition from General Electric ( GE ).
Following the departure of Baldwin and MLW, the Canadian market was left to just two companies, General Electric and General Motors Diesel.
Baldwin and for
Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.
In 1978, Joyce G. Baldwin, former principal of Trinity College, Bristol, proposed her view of the chiastic language structure for the Aramaic portion of Daniel chapters 2-7 .</ sup >
The feud between Ken Barlow and Mike Baldwin would continue for many years, with Mike even marrying Ken's daughter, Susan.
Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker laid down destroyer duties for the Royal Navy:
Baldwin and Echols had been arrested for vandalism and shoplifting, respectively, and Misskelley had a reputation for his temper and for engaging in fistfights with other teenagers at school.
Misskelley and Echols had dropped out of high school ; however, Baldwin earned high grades and demonstrated a talent for drawing and sketching, and was encouraged by one of his teachers to study graphic design in college.
Echols and Baldwin were close friends, and bonded over their similar tastes in music and fiction, and over their shared distaste for the prevailing cultural climate of West Memphis, situated in the Bible Belt.
Lord Stonehaven ( as John Baird ) was Minister for Transport in the Cabinets of Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin ; and after his return to Britain he became Chairman of the UK Conservative Party.
However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.
Both sides paused for desultory negotiations before the war recommenced ; John's position was now stronger, thanks to confirmation that Count Baldwin of Flanders and Renaud of Boulogne had renewed the anti-French alliances they had previously agreed to with Richard.
His brother Baldwin of Boulogne successfully outmanoeuvered Daimbert and claimed Jerusalem for himself as " king of the Latins of Jerusalem ".
Daimbert compromised by crowning Baldwin in Bethlehem rather than Jerusalem, but the path for a secular state had been laid.
Queen Melisende, now regent for her elder son Baldwin III, appointed a new constable, Manasses of Hierges, to head the army after Fulk's death, but Edessa could not be recaptured, despite Zengi's own assassination in 1146.
Baldwin reached his majority in 1176, and despite his illness he no longer had any legal need for a regent.
Baldwin and his advisors recognised that it was essential for Sibylla to be married to a Western nobleman in order to access support from Europe in a military crisis ; while Raymond was still regent, a marriage was arranged for Sibylla and William of Montferrat, a cousin of Louis VII of France and of Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor.
Before Raymond and Bohemond arrived, Agnes and King Baldwin arranged for Sibylla to be married to a Poitevin newcomer, Guy of Lusignan, whose older brother Amalric of Lusignan was already an established figure at court.
Raymond himself refused to do so and left for Tripoli ; Baldwin of Ibelin also refused, gave up his fiefs, and left for Antioch.
Around 1119, the French knight Hugues de Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem with the proposal of creating a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims.
King Baldwin agreed to the request, and granted space for a headquarters in a wing of the royal palace on the Temple Mount, in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In the USA, Mathias Baldwin started building stationary steam engines for commercial use and by 1830, opened his own workshop producing steam locomotives.
Louis purchased these in 1239 – 41 from Emperor Baldwin II of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, for the exorbitant sum of 135, 000 livres ( the chapel, on the other hand, cost only 60, 000 livres to build ).
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