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Barney and Smith Car Company was a railroad car manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio 39°46′02″N 84°10′31″W / 39.767096°N 84.175273°W / 39.767096; -84. Founded in 1849 by Eliam Eliakim Barney and Ebenezer Thresher as Thresher, Packard & Company, it changed names as partners came and went:
With the increase in power of steam locomotives, the old wood freight cars could not take the strain, and demand for Ralston's all-steel cars exploded. By 1907, expansion of the Rarig facility began with the construction of a 1,400-foot (430 m) long Punch, Shear Fitting and Erection Shop. By 1910, a wide variety of cars were being produced.
The Niles Car and Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of railroad equipment, including many streetcar and interurban cars. [1] [page needed] It was founded in 1901 in Niles, Ohio and published catalogs showcasing their various cars. [2] Niles specialized in building wooden-bodied cars in the heyday of interurban building.
DIFCO (originally Differential Steel Car Co.,) Findlay, Ohio (to Trinity) William Dyer; East Railcar; Eaton & Gilbert (1833–1893) Troy, New York [9] Ebenezer Railcar, Buffalo, New York; Edwards Rail Car Company (1921–1942) Edwards Rail Car Company (1997–2008) Elliott Car Company (c. 1885 – 1899) Gadsden, Alabama [9]
A dome car is a type of railway passenger car that has a glass dome on the top of the car where passengers can ride and see in all directions around the train. It also can include features of a coach, lounge car, dining car, sleeping car or observation. Beginning in 1945, a total of 236 were delivered for North American railroad companies.
The Slumbercoach is an 85-foot-long, 24 single room, eight double room streamlined sleeping car.Built in 1956 by the Budd Company for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for service on the Denver Zephyr, subsequent orders were placed in 1958 and 1959 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Missouri Pacific Railroad for the Texas Eagle/National Limited, then in 1959 by the Northern ...
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US Railcar's predecessor, Colorado Railcar, ceased operations on 23 December 2008 because of a "major liquidity problem". [2] The business remained closed until July 2009 when a group of investors, part of the Value Recovery Group (VRG), purchased the assets of Colorado Railcar and renamed the company US Railcar. [3]