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American Car and Foundry Company

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American Car and Foundry (often abbreviated as ACF) is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. [1]

72 relations: American Car Company, Artillery, Astra Dome, Berwick, Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Budd Company, Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company, Buffalo, New York, Bus, Canadian Car and Foundry, Carl Icahn, Chicago, Covered hopper, Depew, New York, Detroit, Dome car, Engineering and Research Corporation, Ensign Manufacturing Company, Fageol, Frederic M. Scherer, GE Capital Rail Services, Goods wagon, Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad, Hall-Scott, Harvard Business School, Huntington, West Virginia, Indianapolis, Interborough Rapid Transit Company, J. G. Brill Company, Jackson and Sharp Company, Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company, Jan Rogers Kniffen, Jeffersonville, Indiana, List of rolling stock manufacturers, London Underground, Memphis, Tennessee, Michigan-Peninsular Car Company, Milton, Pennsylvania, Minerva, Ohio, New Jersey, New York City, New York City Transit Authority, Norfolk Southern Railway, Observation car, Paccar, Passenger car (rail), Pullman Company, R28 (New York City Subway car), Rail transport, Railroad car, ..., Railway Age, Raymond Loewy, Rebel (train), Rohr, Inc., Southern Pacific Transportation Company, St. Charles Car Company, St. Charles, Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis Car Company, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Steel, Submarine chaser, Tank, Terre Haute, Indiana, Trolleybus, Union Pacific Railroad, United States, Well car, Whiz Kids (Department of Defense), Wilmington, Delaware, World War I, World War II. Expand index (22 more) »

American Car Company

The American Car Company was a streetcar manufacturing company based in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

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Artillery

Artillery is a class of large military weapons built to fire munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry's small arms.

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Astra Dome

The Astra Domes were a fleet of streamlined dome cars built by the American Car and Foundry Company ("ACF") for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1954–1955.

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Berwick, Pennsylvania

Berwick is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States, southwest of Wilkes Barre.

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Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Bloomsburg is a town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States, located southwest of Wilkes-Barre along the Susquehanna River.

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Budd Company

The Budd Company was a 20th-century metal fabricator, a major supplier of body components to the automobile industry and a manufacturer of stainless steel passenger rail cars, airframes, missile and space vehicles, and various defense products.

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Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company

Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company, also known as Buffalo Car Company or Buffalo Car Works, was an American manufacturer of railroad freight cars in the late 19th century.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

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Canadian Car and Foundry

Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) also variously known as "Canadian Car & Foundry," or more familiarly as "Can Car," manufactured buses, railroad rolling stock and later aircraft for the Canadian market.

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Carl Icahn

Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Covered hopper

A covered hopper is a railroad freight car designed for carrying dry bulk loads, varying from grain to products such as sand and clay.

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Depew, New York

Depew is a village in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Dome car

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.

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Engineering and Research Corporation

Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) was started by Henry Berliner in 1930.

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Ensign Manufacturing Company

Ensign Manufacturing Company, founded as Ensign Car Works in 1872, was a railroad car manufacturing company based in Huntington, West Virginia.

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Fageol

Fageol Motors was a U.S. manufacturer of buses, trucks and farm tractors.

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Frederic M. Scherer

Frederic Michael Scherer (born 1932 in Ottawa, Illinois) is an American economist and expert on industrial organization.

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GE Capital Rail Services

GE Capital Rail Services, also known as GE Railcar, or GE Railcar Services Corporation was a business unit of GE Capital, a division of General Electric.

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Goods wagon

Goods wagons or freight wagons (North America: goods cars or freight cars) are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo.

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Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad

The Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad was a railroad in the Southern United States.

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Hall-Scott

Hall-Scott Motor Car Company was an American manufacturing company based in Berkeley, California.

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Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Huntington, West Virginia

Huntington is a city in Cabell County and Wayne County in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Interborough Rapid Transit Company

The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the private operator of the original underground New York City Subway line that opened in 1904, as well as earlier elevated railways and additional rapid transit lines in New York City. The IRT was purchased by the city in June 1940. The former IRT lines (the numbered routes in the current subway system) are now the A Division or IRT Division of the Subway.

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J. G. Brill Company

The J.G. Brill Company manufactured trams/streetcars (also, US: trolleys, trolley cars)Young, Andrew D. (1997).

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Jackson and Sharp Company

Jackson and Sharp Company was an American railroad car manufacturer and shipbuilder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company

Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, also called Jackson & Woodin Car Works, was an American railroad freight car manufacturing company of the late 19th century headquartered in Berwick, Pennsylvania.

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Jan Rogers Kniffen

Jan Rogers Kniffen (born 1948) is a consultant to investors in retail companies and a former retail executive.

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Jeffersonville, Indiana

Jeffersonville is a city in Clark County, Indiana, along the Ohio River.

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List of rolling stock manufacturers

Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Michigan-Peninsular Car Company

The Michigan-Peninsular Car Company was a railroad rolling stock manufacturing company formed from the merger of five manufacturing companies in 1892.

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Milton, Pennsylvania

Milton is a borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, on the West Branch Susquehanna River, north of Harrisburg.

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Minerva, Ohio

Minerva is a village in Carroll, Columbiana, and Stark counties in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Transit Authority

The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, The TA or simply Transit, and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public authority in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States.

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Observation car

An observation car/carriage/coach (in US English, often abbreviated to simply observation or obs) is a type of railroad passenger car, generally operated in a passenger train as the last carriage, with windows on the rear of the car for passengers' viewing pleasure.

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Paccar

PACCAR Inc is an American Fortune 500 company and counts among the largest manufacturers of medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles in the world.

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Passenger car (rail)

A passenger car (known as a coach or carriage in the UK, and also known as a bogie in India) is a piece of railway rolling stock that is designed to carry passengers.

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Pullman Company

The Pullman Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

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R28 (New York City Subway car)

The R28 was a New York City Subway car model built by American Car and Foundry (ACF) from 1960 and 1961.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Railroad car

A railroad car or railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon or railway carriage (British English and UIC), also called a train car or train wagon, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system (a railroad/railway).

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Railway Age

Railway Age is an American trade journal for the rail transport industry.

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Raymond Loewy

Raymond Loewy (November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was a Franco–American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries.

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Rebel (train)

The Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad Rebels were lightweight, streamlined diesel-electric trains built by American Car and Foundry.

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Rohr, Inc.

Rohr, Inc., was a wholly owned unit of United Technologies Corporation, an aerospace manufacturing company based in Chula Vista, California, south of San Diego.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.

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St. Charles Car Company

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St. Charles, Missouri

Saint Charles is a city in, and the county seat of, Saint Charles County, Missouri, United States.

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St. Louis

St.

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St. Louis Car Company

The St.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Submarine chaser

A submarine chaser is a small and fast naval vessel that is specifically intended for anti-submarine warfare.

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Tank

A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat, with heavy firepower, strong armour, tracks and a powerful engine providing good battlefield maneuverability.

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Terre Haute, Indiana

Terre Haute is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, near the state's western border with Illinois.

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Trolleybus

A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram Joyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing.. or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Paul Hamlyn Ltd. (UK). Republished 2004 with or 9780753709702.) is an electric bus that draws power from overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded trolley poles.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Well car

A well car, also known as a double-stack car or stack car (also well wagon), is a type of railroad car specially designed to carry intermodal containers (shipping containers) used in intermodal freight transport.

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Whiz Kids (Department of Defense)

Whiz Kids was a name given to a group of experts from RAND Corporation with which Robert McNamara surrounded himself in order to turn around the management of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in the 1960s.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink, Pakehakink) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Car_and_Foundry_Company

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