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What's the fate of this company? Sinolonghai 21:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
"Over 70,500 locomotives had been produced when production ceased in 1956."
I think it would be interesting (and encyclopaedic) to include a list of presently running Baldwin steam locomotives. There is an amusement park my kids love to go to just down the road, and they have two Baldwins - no. 45069, a 1917 narrow gauge 4-6-0, and no. 69425, a 1943 narrow gauge 4-2-2, in complete working order - they have one or the other doing a 2-mile loop around the park every day pulling a passenger train. I will go this week and take some better pictures for the article.
They have a full service locomotive repair and parts fabrication shop as well.
-- 24.176.93.67 19:51, 18 August 2007 (UTC) (mm35173 not logged in)
I added a lot of information about the years of Baldwin's decline (1907-1972). The history section now skips the entire middle section of Baldwin's history, so that needs to be filled in.
I also moved a lot of the information that was in the diesel section to the history section because it related much more to the history of the company than to Baldwin's diesel trains. For example, I think that section should talk about the dimensions and quality of Baldwin's diesel trains, and not stock purchases by Westinghouse, etc., which are general history matters. Juliensorelnyc ( talk) 01:24, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
A considerable portion of this article is written in an un-encyclopedic tone ("to be the end of the line", "proudly proclaiming", "testament to Baldwin's durability and reliability"). This suggests that the text in question (which is often uncited) was either written by a big fan/booster or was taken from some other work, perhaps a magazine article. Either way, it's not appropriate for an encyclopedia and should be re-written (with footnotes) or removed. -- Piledhigheranddeeper ( talk) 19:10, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
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"Between 1940 and 1948, domestic steam locomotive sales declined from 30 percent of the market to 2 percent."
A generous estimate of EMD and ALCO Diesel passenger locomotives produced from 1940-42 would be less than 150 cab units and no road freight Diesels had yet been sold in 1940. The above statement does not seem possible unless somewhere around 20 steam locomotives were sold in 1940. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.208.11.42 ( talk) 02:28, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
This whole (fragmented and run-on) sentence assumes the locomotive building ceased based on the Pennsylvania railroad without citation. _ Its been edited to cited facts.
“In 1956 the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) – which was slow in accepting diesels – finally decided to retire its steam fleet, which was the largest in the world at that time, and buy a large order of diesels. Baldwin bid, expecting its lifelong loyal customer to help keep Baldwin in business by buying at least some Baldwin diesels. General Motors' EMD division, however, gave the PRR an exceptional deal on new, reliable GP9s, so the PRR – which was in a financial pinch itself – sent the business to GM. This one lost deal proved to be the end of the line, and—after 125 years of continuous production—“
The lead states The company has no relation to the E.M. Baldwin and Sons locomotive builder of New South Wales, Australia. and yet the whole final section is about Australia. Is this correct? Chienlit ( talk) 15:02, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
theres a photo (1954 Baldwin 0-4-4-0 diesel-electric switcher at the Texas Transportation Museum) but there is one problem : 0-4-4-0 is whyte notation and thats for steam locomotives and thats a diesel, so it should be B-B 73.250.53.193 ( talk) 21:36, 28 September 2021 (UTC)