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...Philadelphia Council hearing, Mayor S. Davis Wilson asked Board Chairman Samuel Matthews Vauclain of the Municipal Gas Corporation to support his campaign to reduce Philadelphia's gas rate from 90? to 50 per 1,000 cubic ft. Replied wealthy Octogenarian Vauclain. also board chairman of Baldwin Locomotive Works: "Fifty-cent gas is no more possible than my going to Heaven when...
...speed of 60 m.p.h. on the new Vermont Central Railroad. Baldwin locomotives puffed through the Civil War, through the lusty era of Westward expansion, through the Spanish-American War until, during the World War, 300 per month were being produced. With Depression railroad orders fell off. Chairman Samuel M. Vauclain stoutly declared: "I have seen the grass, at times, grow six inches high in the Baldwin Locomotive works. It is not six inches high now. Therefore, why worry?" But the grass had a good chance to grow at the 590-acre Eddystone, Pa. plant in 1932 when Baldwin sold only...
...Irvington, N. J. sold 1,000 miles of railroad track, 15,000,000 crossties, more sleepers than Pullman Co., more locomotives than American Locomotive and Baldwin Locomotive combined. New York Central's President Williamson had written the company a letter of enthusiastic praise. Baldwin Locomotive's Chairman Vauclain had even allowed himself to be photographed with his grandchildren in front of one of the company's sleek shiny locomotives. Railroad engineers themselves had openly admitted that its rolling stock was the best in the field. The company was Lionel Corp., world's biggest maker...
...77th birthday Chairman Samuel Matthews Vauclain of $83,000,000 Baldwin Locomotive Works joyfully announced : "We have just received an order for a locomotive from the Philippines. It amounts to $25,000." Last year no U. S. locomotive builder received an order except American Locomotive. That one was built in Alco's Montreal plant for a Brazilian cement company...
Nearly half the 55,000 engines on U. S. rails are more than 20 years old. Sad-eyed Mr. Vauclain, who has seen the grass grow six inches high in the Baldwin plant at times, commented last fortnight to the International Acetylene Association: "One locomotive went into service the same year I came into being in 1856 and is still in service...