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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.
TUDEMSAS (Turkish carriage wagon industry) EUROTEM (Railway Vehicles Industry and Trade Joint Stock Company) SİTAŞ (Sivas Sleeper Manufacturing Industry and Trade Joint Stock Company) RAYSİMAŞ (Rail Systems Engineering, Consultancy Joint Stock Company) VADEMSAŞ (Voestalpine Kardemir Railway Systems Industry and Trade Joint Stock Company)
Commercial locomotive builders were called upon when requirements exceeded the railway works' capacity, but these orders were generally to the railways' own designs. British commercial builders concentrated on industrial users, small railway systems, and to a large extent the export market.
The National Railroad Construction and Maintenance Association, Inc. (NRC) is a trade association in the railroad and rail transit construction industry. The NRC is a non-profit trade association, governed by a board of directors and administered by the Washington, D.C., government relations firm, TGA AMS.
The company maintains the only industry-accepted version of the North American railroad industry's official code tables. Beginning as an information technology department within the Association of American Railroads (AAR), the company was established as a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of the AAR in 1999.
The company is one of the leading designers, manufacturers and marketers of rail freight equipment in North America and Europe. It also has operations in South America, Poland, Romania and Turkey. Greenbrier is a leading provider of railcars, wheelsets, parts, management, leasing and other services to the railroad and related transportation ...
Industrial railways were once very common, but with the rise of road transport, their numbers have greatly diminished. [1]An example of an industrial railway would transport bulk goods, for example clay from a quarry or coal from a mine, to an interchange point, called an exchange siding, with a main line railway, onwards from where it would be transported to its final destination.
Rail infrastructure manufacturers (4 C, 32 P) N. Network Rail (3 C, 27 P) R. Railtrack (1 C, 1 P) Railway infrastructure companies of Australia (17 P)