Baldwin Locomotive Works
1831 - Closed
Overview
Matthias Baldwin built a small engine in a Philadelphia shop and grew the most prolific steam locomotive builder in America, tens of thousands of engines from halls that sprawled across the city before the move to Eddystone. Dieselization ended the era in the 1950s.
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