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A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car, or private varnish is a railroad passenger car either originally built or later converted for service as a business car for private individuals. A private car could be added to the make-up of a train or pulled by a private locomotive, providing privacy for its passengers. [1]
Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. This is a list of companies that manufactured railroad cars and other rolling stock.Most of these companies built both passenger and freight equipment and no distinction is made between the two for the purposes of this list.
Barney and Smith Car Company was a railroad car manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio. Founded in 1849 by Eliam Eliakim Barney and Ebenezer Thresher as Thresher, Packard & Company, it changed names as partners came and went: Coach GN 3261, built in 1906. Barney & Smith faced challenges from bigger railcar makers in the late 1890s and early 1900s and ...
Edward's also restored and manufactured other types of rail cars, including streetcars. Rebirth of the Edwards Company came in the fall of 1997 when Vintage Rail Consultant Steven Torrico saw and rode on his first Edwards car, an ex-CB&Q Model-25. 2008 was the last year of manufacturing at the Montgomery facility.
June 16, 1988. The Abraham Lincoln, also known as Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Business Car No. 101, is the oldest operable passenger car in the United States allowed to run on tracks operated by Amtrak. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
A rendering of the interior of the American Pioneer 220, the new high-speed rail cars that will be produced by Siemens Mobility at a new production center in Horseheads.
4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Sun Lounges were a fleet of three streamlined sleeper - lounge cars built by Pullman-Standard for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) in 1956. The cars featured a distinctive glazed roof area meant to capture the ambience of a dome car in a lower profile, as tunnels on the East Coast of the ...
Brightline West, the company behind the high-speed passenger rail, has posted pictures of its “party car” for people who can’t wait to get the fun started. The train car, where champagne and ...