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Matthias Baldwin's first locomotive,
Old Ironsides, was constructed for the Philadelphia,
Germantown & Norristown Railroad in late 1832, after Baldwin,
a former jeweler, silversmith, and printer had publicly shown a
subscale demonstrator the year before. Baldwin had built a powerful
(for the day) stationary steam engine in 1828, and combined this
experience with knowledge gleaned from early British locomotives to
produce the 2-2-0 Ironsides.
History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works from 1831 to 1897 By Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation
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