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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Electro-Motive Diesel, Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, American Locomotive Company, Fairbanks-Morse, Tredegar Iron Works, Westinghouse Electric, Progress Rail Services, Mount Savage Locomotive Works, Lima Locomotive Works, Harlan and Hollingsworth, Portland Company, Ingalls Shipbuilding, Norris Locomotive Works, St. Louis Car Company, Mason Machine Works, Mount Clare Shops, H. K. Porter, Inc, Richmond Locomotive Works, Grant Locomotive Works, Brooks Locomotive Works, Wabtec, Whitcomb Locomotive Works, GE Transportation Systems, Rhode Island Locomotive Works, Brookville Equipment Corporation, General Motors Diesel Division, Willamette Iron and Steel Works, Altoona Works, National Railway Equipment Company, Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company, Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, Schenectady Locomotive Works, Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works, Jewett Car Company, Manchester Locomotive Works, Hinkley Locomotive Works, Davenport Locomotive Works, Dickson Manufacturing Company, Plymouth Locomotive Works, Vulcan Iron Works, Alco-GE, Globe Locomotive Works, Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company, Harlan and Hollingsworth Company, Swinburne, Smith and Company, Amoskeag Locomotive Works, Climax Locomotive Works, Anbel, Denmead Foundry. Excerpt: Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's plate, 1922 Historical marker commemorating the founding of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in the Franklintown area of the Spring Garden neighborhood, Philadelphia.The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad (railway) locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Although the company was very successful as a producer of steam locomotives, its transition to the production of diesels was far less so. Later, when the early demand ...
