The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

The City of Ogden, the 223 Locomotive Foundation, and the Colorado Railroad Museum have announced plans for an operational ...

Founded in l830, the Philadelphia-based Baldwin Locomotive Works grew into the world's largest steam locomotive builder. Baldwin locomotives ruled the rails of countries large and small in North and ...

Matthias W. Baldwin founded Baldwin Locomotive Works in his tiny shop in Lodge Alley, Philadelphia in 1831. His first locomotive, “Old Ironsides,” weighed five tons, had to be taken out of the shop ...

When red freight-car corpuscles are flowing through the arteries of U.S. business, the plants of three great companies are filled with the crash of hydraulic forges, the pounding of hundreds of ...