Original Caption: Eddystone, Pennsylvania - Railroad parts. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Machinist milling down part of a drive-shaft on big locomotive, March 1937 U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 69-RP-523 Photographer: Hine, Lewis Subjects: The New Deal Tennessee Valley Authority Works Progress Administration Work Portraits The Great Depression Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/518710 Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html Access Restrictions: Unrestricted Use Restrictions: Unrestricted

The RF16, the best known model to where the "Sharknose" carbody, was the last, and most successful, cab design Baldwin produced.

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The "Baby Face" was not a locomotive but a specific carbody Baldwin applied to its early cab models. Unfortunately, it was not well-liked.

69-RP-537 Toolmaker, in the Baldwin Locomotive Works, making a taper sleeve gauge from a taper reamer. Photo-study for National Research Project of WPA

How could a Philadelphia-based global giant with 20,000 employees and a history of 120 years of operation disappear, leaving little trace? It happened to the Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW), which perfected the art and science of building steam locomotives for domestic and worldwide markets. Baldwin was so dominant that in 1901, eight smaller builders that […]

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69-RP-538 Tool-builder, in the Baldwin Locomotive Works, planing for a taper shoe on a steam hammer ram. Photo-study for National Research Project of WPA

An HP Class 4-6-2 steam locomotive, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia for the Jodhpur Railway in 1948. The massive 12-wheeled tender that weighed 65 tons and carried 6000 gallons of water weighed more than the engine in working order. Only ten such locomotives were ever built and one is preserved at National Rail Museum, New Delhi.

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Are there machines that are more exciting to drive than a Bugatti Veyron or a McLaren P1? I suspect there are, or at least that there used to be. Back when I was a boy most boys wanted to grow up to become a train driver. In our little