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Baldwin Fifty Years at Eddystone Book 1 1906-1939 BLW 1906-56 by Scott Trostel
Baldwin: Fifty Years at Eddystone Book 1 1906-1939
The Baldwin locomotive Works at Eddystone 1906-1956
By Scott D Trostel
Soft Cover
152 pages
Copyright 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgmentsiv
Dedicationv
Contentsvi - vii
Baldwin: Philadelphia Locomotive Builder9
Samuel Vauclain, General Superintendent13
Eddystone Conceived18
Eddystone on The Delaware19
Eddystone Established21
A New Design - Articulated Locomotives22
Burnham, Williams & Company Dissolved22
A New Technology - Articulated Locomotives23
Baldwin's Articulated Locomotives25
Baldwin's Hinged Boiler Deisgn31
The High Water Mark33
The Triplex and Quadraplex Designs34
From Pastureland to Munitions Plants at Eddystone39
Remington - Eddystone Arsenal40
Eddystone Ammunition Corporation of New York46
Pier 25148
Hazards of Ordnance Production50
Eddystone Munitions Company53
Wartime Sacrifice and Defense Industry Housing Shortage 53
War Industry on the Delaware River55
Railway Gun Mounts57
Battle Front Locomotives62
The United States Railroad Administration65
The 1920s - Giant in A Shrinking Locomotive Industry70
Post WW I Locomotive Manufacturing at Eddystone70
Locomotive 6000078
Preservation of Locomotive 6000085
The Caprotti Poppet Valve Gear86
A Hostile Take Over88
Closing the Broad Street Shops91
A Plan for Diversification93
Southwark Foundry & Machine Company93
Baldwin Southwark Corporation94
Standard Steel Works Company95
William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co.95
DeLaVargne Refrigeration Company97
Cramp-Morris Industries97
Pelton Water Wheel Company98
Whitcomb Locomotive Works99
Whitcomb's Acquisition of the Milwaukee Locomotive
Manufacturing Company101
General Steel Castings Corporation102
Other Lssser Holdings102
Receivership and Reorganization103
Electric Arc Welding108
1927 - A Turning Year114
Baldwin Enters the Super-Power Era114
The 2-6-6-4 Development117
Baldwin Super-Power119
The Eddystone Heavy Electrics125
The Baldwin Diesels128
Baldwin's Reluctant Entry Into Diesel-Electric
Locomotive Production129
Baldwin-Westinghouse Locomotives131
The Case For Diesel-Electric Diversification
at Whitcomb137
62000, A Baldwin or Whitcomb Locomotive139
A New Vision141
1933, A Year For Technological Competition144
Entry into The Passenger Locomotive Market149
Model 400 Series Engine150
BibliographyBook 2
IndesBook 2
BACK COVER
This volume is the first of two that explores The Baldwin Locomotive Works at its massive facilities in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Baldwin is synonymous with steam railroad locomotive construction. It was a single site manufacturing plant until the upturn of business in 1906, when expanded foundry and machining capacity became necessary. Instead of attempting to buy ground somewhere in the immediate Philadelphia neighborhood and build another multi-story building, they bought the abandoned Gunsen Iron Foundry at Eddystone, Pennsylvania, twelve miles south. The foundry and 180 acres of pastureland comprised the first modest investment in what would become a 600 acre manufacturing complex. It was a gem in a highly concentrated manufacturing center on the Delaware River
Baldwin practiced vertical integration manufacturing long before that phrase was ever trendy. At differing times, they owned all the raw materials, all the necessary manufacturing via steel mills, and fabrication plants to produce every single component for a locomotive. Eddystone itself was first expanded in significant ways at the start of WW I as a defense plant to handle military needs including munitions, rifles, bullets, shells, canons, specialty guns and canons plus non-rail vehicles such as army trucks. With the union situation at the Broad Street plant and its limitations of physical size, at the end of WWI the managers thought it more prudent to shift all production into the empty defense plant buildings at Eddystone during the 1920s.
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