Major Supplier

ID: 1638 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: E. C. Blomeyer
This file appears in: Camp MacArthur Troop Train Derailment
Major Supplier

Baldwin Locomotive Works served as a major supplier of engines—like the St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas’ Number 510 Baldwin Locomotive steam engine pictured here—to the Allied powers throughout World War I, producing over five thousand trains for the war effort.

This file appears in: Camp MacArthur Troop Train Derailment

By Geoff Hunt
On June 18, 1918, a troop train carrying soldiers from Camp MacArthur’s 80th Field Artillery left East Waco and traveled eastward on the Cotton Belt line, heading toward a southern training camp. After traveling for fifteen minutes (about seven…