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 ...

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 ...

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Scott Hawbaker, a life-long member and chief mechanical engineer of the Western New York Railway Historical Society, is enveloped in smoke and steam from a 1925 Baldwin steam locomotive on display ...

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Chug, chug goes the engine as the whistle blows steam. For many youths this description has only been imagined through books of a steam locomotive. Soon it will be a reality. The Fremont and Elkhorn ...