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Baldwin Locomotives

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Baldwin locomotives is a good idea but lacking like most railroad books are today. The subject Baldwin locomotives should be a many volume set of books and not a small 160 page book like this. this book is not any near a book of facts he tried to put a 150 year history in a few pages and some facts but very little. Most railroad books today are picture books that lack facts and history.

Here in New Zealand we had many Baldwin-built locomotives. One of the most significant of these was the Q-class Pacific. In 1900, the NZRailway premier express locomotives were 4-6-0's - but with the last set of drivers under the cab, the firebox had to extend downwards between the frames - but our gauge is only 3'6", which made the firebox very narrow. So the NZR requested a wide-firebox locomotive from BALDWIN, solving the problem by putting a trailing truck underneath the cab, instead of a driving wheel. This was in 1901, and was the first class of PACIFIC loco's in the world. Built by BALDWIN. Yet this book attributes the first Pacific to ALCO instead!!! Does this so-called "historian" really know his stuff??