To: gpapa
Matthais W. Baldwin is a name synonymous with great locomotives. His first locomotive “Old Ironsides” was built in 1832. The locomotive in the picture you posted is a very famous Baldwin locomotive. Baldwin built some of the best steam locomotives ever made.
763 posted on
01/26/2008 6:57:49 PM PST by
Fiddlstix
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To: Fiddlstix
I know. BTW, I have one 2nd great-grandfather who worked for C&NW RR. He was killed in an work accident in 1880. My great-grandfather worked for C&NW for over 40 years. The CNW 400 ran right behind my grandfather's house. Here is the so-called "Sunday Afternoon" passenger train that came up from Chicago and turned around at Menominee and returned to Chicago, on Sundays only. This photo is on the bridge between Menominee and Marinette as it is beginning its return south. (Sept. 1964)
788 posted on
01/26/2008 8:06:17 PM PST by
gpapa
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