Anything at Eddystone?

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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This building is labeled as the original factory building of Baldwin Locomotive Works. Is the building currently being used for anything?

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=39.8614443&lon=-75.339303&z=16&l=0&m=b

Does the building date from 1906, when Baldwin moved to Eddystone from Philadelphia?

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If it’s not then there sure are a lot of abandoned vehicles in the parking lot.

3

From driving past it many times a few years ago, my impression was that it was being used by either a commerical/ industrial painting company, and/ or a structural steel fabricating company. Unfortunately, I haven’t been down that way much lately, and when I have it’s been either a strictly ‘eyes-on-the-road-at-all-times’ proposition, or at night whhen not much could be seen anyway. Reviewing the aerial photos on Bing this afternoon, it looks like a heavy-haul trucking or shipping company and its trailers and containers are much in evidence in that yard.

I have no reliable information on the date of that building, though it seems later than 1906 vintage to me. I could more readily believe the 1920’s - 1940’s time frame. There are enough histories of Baldwin out there that the info ought to be someplace . . . . [%-)]

  • Paul North.
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Not sure it is the same building, but Remington Arms used a Baldwin Locomotive building at Eddystone to manufacture the British Pattern 14 rifles and later the US M1917 rifle during WW1. Production on the P14 began in 1915, I believe. and the rifles were marked ERA. M1917 production began on the M1917 began in mid year and rifles were marked U S MODEL of 1917 EDDYSTONE.

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Google maps: 10th & Simpson Street Eddystone PA: Then click street view.

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The building in the picture is being used by Matrix Services. The main office building is also still standing and is leased to many different companys.

I worked in those building for 13 years with Frank W. Hake who did heavy hauling, rigging and millwrighting. There is a date in the cement floor in the shop of 1912.

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Thanks for the reply.

They look like a fairly large company.
http://www.matrixservice.com/index.asp