Explosion at Lake City...

[browningautorifle]

A huge difference in buildings if you study the buildings from 100 years ago and now. Just the one left, and the admin building...

[fjruple]

A huge difference in buildings if you study the buildings from 100 years ago and now. Just the one left, and the admin building...

Jim-- You are quite right. The Baldwin Locomative administration building on the upper right which now houses the Federal Railroad Administration was not built until 1928.

--fjruple

[browningautorifle]

In fact the Eddystone munitions company where the explosion took place was owned and operated by the Baldwin Locomotive works.

Now, with all that...there was an explosion there? What exactly would have been destroyed, or was it just structural and minor? Glass as was suggested(there was sure enough of it).

[fjruple]

Now, with all that...there was an explosion there? What exactly would have been destroyed, or was it just structural and minor? Glass as was suggested(there was sure enough of it).

Jim -- The Eddystone Munition Plant was located on the other side of the Industrial Highway (Rt.291) and the railroad tracks that you seen to the right in the picture. I am going to attached a map to this post to show where everything is located at the Baldwin Works. There is a very grainy aerial photo of the Eddystone Munitions works (#17 &18 on the map which was rebuilt after the explosion) needless to say it is pretty flat. The site of the Eddystone munitions Works is now occupied by a power generation plant. The only part of the old Eddystone Rifle Plant (#24 on the map) still standing is the Power Steam Building #27 in the attached map.

Cheers

fjruple

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[browningautorifle]

That's an enormous spread of buildings compared to what there later was, and certainly people must have no idea with what remains... A mere shadow...