Eddystone HISTORY Page


Baldwin Locomotive Works
Eddystone, PA

Worlds largest producer of steam locomotives.

A Baldwin Locomotive, unit number 60,000.  This engine is on display at the
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE,  Phila. PA


The original Eddystone Lighthouse at Plymouth, England


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Aerial view of  Delaware River and Crum Creek, former site of the Eddystone Munitions Plant & Rifle Works (center left).  Is now the present home of PECO Eddystone generating stations.  PECO property is outlined.  To the right of PECO is the former General Steel Castings and the present site of Boeing Helicopters.   Date of photo unknown, probably in the early 1950's.

Click here to visit an interesting site on the Eddystone Munitions Plant



Tandem Rotor Helicopters found their beginning in Eddystone.
This is presently the Penn Terminals Company, at 2nd & Saville Ave.
To find out more, click here.  http://www.helis.com/pioneers/f_plp.htm
Photo compliments of,  Jay Hendrickson,  Platt-LePage Archives