What would you do with it???

[LarryG]

Add an upholstered seat and some casters, and that'd make a great stool for your shop.

[Thom2]

Cast into the inside "Baldwin Locomotive Works", I think that's a pretty good sign

Pat, you can discuss it with her when you come up

Bruce, are you offering???

Larry, the stool idea is kinda neat ... hadn't thought of that one. Altho' I'm not sure how handy a 50lb stool is gonna be, even with casters.

I did plan on an end table for the basement ... probably 1/2" thick plexi top, there's a single 5/16" threaded hole right in the center of the top that will work for attachment of the top. I found a guy that will polish it too, I've got some prep work to do to get it ready, but it should nearly look like chrome when it's done

[TheRic]

End table is a good ideal. Just don't plan to move it much

Are you going to do anything with the holes on the side? Maybe fill them with a darkish wood to offset the shinny Aluminum. The top does not look flat. Maybe fill that in also with some dark wood, since the top will be see thru.

[Woodwerker]

Attach it the Philadelphia Phillies and chuck it into the Ocean

[germdoc]

Hmmm, up here in Beer Country our kegs don't have holes in the sides otherwise the beer'd leak out.

I think you could mount a drill press or grinder to that thing. Should be pretty stable.

[Wood_workur]

cut it open, and use it to store kegs.

Then run liquid nitrogen lines through the sides...

[Roger on the Rock]

Post it on e-bay and sell it. With the money, do something nice for your wife.

[Roger on the Rock]

Sorry about that!! Sorry about that!! I stepped away from the computer for a few minutes without logging off!! Someone else took advantage of the opportunity I left them!!

I like the end table idea. Character and conversation piece. Maybe even try to get a picture of the type of locomotive it came out of too.

[cwsmith]

"Baldwin Locomotive Works"

Wow, you have a piece of history there!

Check out: http://www.steamlocomotive.com/builders/

I'd either make a fine looking table out of it or call the Steam Locomotive museum and see if they need it.

CWS

[Thom2]

"Baldwin Locomotive Works"

Wow, you have a piece of history there!

Check out: http://www.steamlocomotive.com/builders/

I'd either make a fine looking table out of it or call the Steam Locomotive museum and see if they need it.

CWS

Thanks for posting that, this just keeps getting more and more interesting with each new piece of information that I find!!!!!

I may have to do some more research, that link you posted led me to this ... http://www.rrmuseumpa.org/ ..... which is just down the road from me, in fact, I think a guy that my wife works with does some parttime work at their railroad.

It would be really cool to find out what locomotive series this particular unit may have come from and to have photos and specs of it. I do have casting #'s from the piston, so this may prove to be a realistic idea.

[meika123]

Personally,I liked the ones that mentioned: Beeeeeeer.

Dave in NC

[Tom Slick]

that's the coolest mitersaw base I have ever seen!

[Thom2]

that's the coolest mitersaw base I have ever seen!

uhhhh ....


I don't know how to break this to ya .....


but that's an Impact Driver

[just4funsies]

Attach it the Philadelphia Phillies and chuck it into the Ocean

Think you got it bad? I'm a Braves fan...

[LCHIEN]

so being a bALDWIN PART IT MUST BE FROM A STEAM LOCO AS THEY DID NOT BUILD DEISELS.

So its not a combustion cylider but a steam driving cyclinder. Hmmmm...

Good luck looking up the part nos. Read this in one of the links above:

Most of the records of Baldwin were destroyed in 1954. What survived has found its way to the De Golyer Library at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. A few drawings are located at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburgh, PA. The Builders Photos are located at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, PA.