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WW1 - 1914-1918
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" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
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BALDWIN
Title of this photo at the Library of Congress is this: "Elec. Locomotive, Baldwin Shops, Phila. 1909 - 1920".
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Not electric with those smoke stacks!
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Plaque on the right of the door says Artillery in French.
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French design
[Péchot-Bourdon] but during the Great War was being built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, PA.
Source :'Locomotive Cyclopedia for 1922'
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Baldwin delivered 280 of them with the first in 1915.
Trench Locomotive built for France by Baldwin Loco. Works ca1915
Original photo in the National Photo Co. Collection at the Library of Congress:
According to this web site: " April 1915 Events
- Baldwin Locomotive Works delivers the first of 280 Péchot-Bourdon locomotives for the French trench railways on the Western Front (World War I)."
Double Ender [Locomotive Cyclopedia, 1922] ca1917
LOCOMOTIVE CYCLOPEDIA FOR 1922.
Saint Nazaire
Assembling locomotives built by Baldwin, assembling yard, St. Nazaire, France Feb. 14, 1918 NARA111-SC-006301-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives Record Group 111.
Eclaron Braucourt
Baldwin gas engine hauling logs to Army saw mill, near Eclaron France July 8, 1918
NARA111-SC-17010-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Baldwin 2-6-2T locomotives
5003 and 5190.
Abainville
Unloading ballast on Abainville - Sorcy Line France Jul 2, 1918
NARA111-SC-17531-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Corniéville
Front of Baldwin 2-6-2 locomotive, Cornieville, France July 3, 1918
NARA111-SC-17502-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Sergy
Donkey engine built by Baldwin for French Gov't was captured by Germans,
retaken by 308th Engineers Sergy France 8-27-18
NARA111-SC-022787-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Baldwin Locomotives ready for shipment to France in 1918
NARA165-WW-283A-029
Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG-165, Military Administration - Transportation - Rail.
Baldwin 2-6-2 steam locomotive, 60 cm gauge, for US Army 1917
NARA111-SC-20321-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Baldwin gasoline locomotive [30 hp] 3 foot gauge for light railways in France undated
NARA 111-SC-20318-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Brest
Unloading 1 or 36 complete Baldwin engines from the USS Firmore, Brest France 10-2-18 NARA111-SC-030964-ac image
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Brest
US National Archives
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Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 9/18/1947-2/28/1964 (Most Recent) Series: Historical Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985
Production Date: 1936
Other Title(s): Historical Film, No. 1341
Sound Type: Silent Scope & Content:
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A cargo of flour is unloaded at Brest in 1918 from the freighter West Bridge.
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Shows torpedo holes in the ship.
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129th Inf. and Negro labor troops unload clothing and food from the freighters Zeelandia, Pocahontas, Wilhelmina, and Kurch onto lighters.
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Shows materiel piled on the dock by huge cranes.
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Locomotives and tenders are derricked ashore from the Firmore.
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The labor crews eat.
Contact(s): National Archives at College Park
Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601
Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001
National Archives Identifier: 24844 Local Identifier: 111-H-1341
Ménil la Tour
21st Railway engineers supply train near Menil-la-tour, France May 27, 1918
NARA111-SC-14211-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
"Baldwin Locomotive Works produced 15-tonne (16.5-short-ton; 14.8-long-ton) 2-6-2T numbered 5001-5195.
Number 5195 was sent to Davenport Locomotive Works as a pattern for their production of the design, while another was sent to the Magor Car Company
to test operation of their military railway car production.
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Two were lost at sea, and the remaining 191 saw service with the U.S. Army in France.
Locomotives were initially painted grey with black smoke boxes.
White lettering was applied to early production, but black lettering was used in France.
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Baldwin also built 5-tonne (5.5-short-ton; 4.9-long-ton) 26 kW (35 hp) and 7-tonne (7.7-short-ton; 6.9-long-ton) 37 kW (50 hp) 4-wheel gasoline mechanical locomotives for the U.S. Army.
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The lighter locomotives were numbered 8001-8063.
The heavier locomotives were numbered 7001-7126 and operated at 2 metres per second or 6.56 feet per second (7.2 km/h or 4.5 mph),
roughly the speed of a slow jogger.
The standard American military railway car was 170 centimetres (5 ft 7 in) wide and 7 m (23 ft) long riding on two 4-wheel archbar bogies.
1,695 of these cars were built by the Magor Car Company, American Car and Foundry and Ralston Steel Car Company.
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Most were flatcars, but some had gondola sides, others had roofs (either with open sides or like conventional boxcars) and others carried shallow
rectangular tanks with a capacity of 10,000 litres (2,600 US gal; 2,200 imp gal) of drinking water.
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The boxcars and tank cars were regarded as top-heavy and prone to derailment; so most loads were carried on flatcars and gondolas.
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Approximately 1,600 4-wheel side dump cars were produced in several versions for construction earth-moving.
The total number of cars shipped to Europe was 2,385.
Davenport Locomotive Works built one-hundred 15-tonne (16.5-short-ton; 14.8-long-ton) 2-6-2T and Vulcan Iron Works built thirty more.
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Whitcomb Locomotive Works built 74 7-tonne (7.7-short-ton; 6.9-long-ton) 4-wheel gasoline mechanical locomotives. None of the Davenport,
Vulcan and Whitcomb production saw overseas service, but some survived to World War II on United States military bases including Fort Benning, Georgia,
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, Fort Dix, New Jersey and an arsenal in Alabama"