WEMCo - Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.

Single-Unit Boxcab

Baldwin advertisment - BDZ collection

Westinghouse #7 - carbody built in house by Westinghouse

Baldwin advertisment - BDZ collection

Western Electric #1 - photo shows round builder's plate. Western Electric #1 was similar to Westinghouse #7 (above) but had a Baldwin built carbody. See roster below for details.

photo by: Unknown - collection of Mark Laundry

ARMCO B-70 Single-Unit Boxcab BLW c/n 60759, completed 8/1929 - built for the Butler Works of ARMCO Steel - when the carbody was delivered from Baldwin it was lettered as "B.L.W. 2" - repowered by ARMCO with a Hamilton engine - donated to the Southeastern Railway Museum, 1963

Baldwin Builder's Card - collection of Bobb Losse

Visibility Cabs

Baldwin advertisment - BDZ collection

- 9 single-ended visibility cab carbodies were built by Baldwin - 2 double-ended visibility cab carbodies were built by Baldwin

Single-Ended Visibility Cab

Baldwin photo #10621 - 1930 - BDZ collection

Single-Ended Visibility Cab Carbody - one of two Baldwin photos (10621 & 10621.1) taken in 1930. Perhaps the first single-ended visibility cab carbody built by Baldwin for WEMCo.





photo by: Unknown - collection of Mark Laundry

W. E. & M. CO    21 Single-Ended Visibility Cab BLW c/n 61262, completed 5/1930 - built as WEMCo demonstrator #21 - demo'ed until 1933 - became Westinghouse East Pittsburgh Works #9 - to Deitch Co. as #9 - scrapped 1969

photo taken at the 1930 A.R.A. convention, Atlantic City, NJ



drawing by: Russ Porter - original source unknown - BDZ collection





photos by: Gary W. Sonner Pennsylvania Trolley Museum August 08, 2009

ARMCO B-73 Single-Ended Visibility Cab BLW c/n 61264, completed 7/1930 - built as American Steel & Wire #1 - sold back to WEMCo, rebuild and sold to ARMCO Steel, 1942 - repowered by ARMCO with a Hamilton engine, 1947 - to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, 1971

photo by: Gary W. Sonner





photo by: Mike Castellow Minnesota Transportation Museum - July 17, 2013

ARMCO B-71 Single-Ended Visibility Cab BLW c/n 61401, completed 11/1930 - built for the American Rolling Mill Co. - repowered by ARMCO with a Hamilton engine, 1947 - donated to the Michigan Railway Historical Society, 1966 - leased to the Cadillac & Lake City RR, last operated 1973 - to the Minnesota Transportation Museum, 1985 - to the Illinois Railway Museum, 2016




Double-Ended Visibility Cab

Baldwin photo 10038 - BDZ collection

B.L.W.   1   (WEMCo demonstrator #23) Double-Ended Visibility Cab BLW c/n 61261, completed 5/1930 - built as WEMCo demonstrator #23 - when the carbody was delivered from Baldwin it was lettered as "B.L.W. 1" - sold to Northhampton & Bath as #801 - sold for scrap 1955

Hood-Type Center-Cab

photo by: Unknown - collection of Mark Laundry

Chicago Great Western   2 Hood-Type Center-Cab BLW c/n 61757, completed 6/1934 - built as WEMCo demonstrator #13 - to CGW as #2 - scrapped 1966

Roster: WEMCo units with carbodies built by Baldwin

built for / as	WEMCo date completed	BLW construction number	BLW carbody builders date	history / disposition	photo above
Western Electric #1	2/1929	60676	11/1928	scrapped 1955	✓
ARMCO B-70 *	8/1929	60759	4/1929	Southeastern Railway Museum	✓

built for / as	WEMCo date completed	BLW construction number	BLW carbody builders date	history / disposition	photo above
WEMCo demo 21	5/1930	61262	3/1930	Westinghouse East Pittsburgh Works #9 Deitch Co. #9, scrapped 1969	✓
WEMCo demo 22 *	12/1930	61263	3/1930	Westinghouse East Pittsburgh Works #8 Deitch Co. #8
American Steel & Wire #1	7/1930	61264	3/1930	ARMCO B-73 PA Trolley Museum	✓
Great Lakes Steel 1	9/1930	61361	5/1930	scrapped 1955
Great Lakes Steel 2	9/1930	61396	6/1930	scrapped 1955
ARMCO B-71	11/1930	61401	6/1930	Illinois Railway Museum, 2016	✓
Great Lakes Steel 3	1/1937	61983	8/1936	Detroit Marine #9 sold to scrapyard 1968
Great Lakes Steel 4	1/1937	61984	8/1936	Detroit Marine #4 scrapped 1963
Great Lakes Steel 5	1/1937	61985	8/1936	scrapped 1956