We are pleased to present this wonderful collection of eleven {11} Baldwin Locomotive Works catalogs and history books on a Gift Quality DVD.

Over 650 pages, with hundreds of illustrations and locomotive drawings, specifications, company history and more.



DVD contains the following eleven volumes:

:: 1872 Baldwin Illustrated Catalog of Locomotives ~ 146 pages.

:: 1881 Baldwin Illustrated Catalog of Locomotives ~ 168 pages.

:: 1885 Narrow Gauge Locomotive Catalog ~ 76 pages.

:: 1901 Baldwin Electric Locomotive Catalog ~ 40 pages.

:: 1906 Baldwin Locomotive Record - 48 pages.

:: 1914 Baldwin Locomotive Data - 120 pages.

:: 1928 The Story of Eddystone ~ 80 pages.

:: History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1831 -1897 ~ 100 pages.

:: History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1831 - 1902 ~ 108 pages.

:: History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1831 - 1920 ~ 176 pages.

:: The Jacobs-Shupert Sectional Firebox ~ 70 pages.

The Baldwin Locomotive Works had a humble beginning. Matthias W. Baldwin, the founder, was a jeweller and silversmith, who, in 1825, formed a partnership with a machinist, and engaged in the manufacture of bookbinders' tools and cylinders for calico printing. Mr. Baldwin then designed and constructed for his own use a small stationary engine, the workmanship of which was so excellent and its efficiency so great that he was solicited to build others like it for various parties, and thus led to turn his attention to steam engineering.

Initially, Baldwin would build many more steam locomotives at its cramped 196 acre (0.79 kmē) Broad Street Philadelphia shop but would begin to shift production to a 616 acre (2.5 kmē) site located at Spring Street in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania, by 1906. By 1928, the company moved all locomotive production there. Baldwin was very soon the largest locomotive builder in the United States, perhaps in the world.