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J. G. Brill Company

Index J. G. Brill Company

The J.G. Brill Company manufactured trams/streetcars (also, US: trolleys, trolley cars)Young, Andrew D. (1997). [1]

51 relations: American Car and Foundry Company, American Car Company, Aru Ressha, Bi-directional vehicle, Birney, Bogie, Bullet (interurban), Bus, Canadian Car and Foundry, Capitol Diner, Convair, Doodlebug (rail car), Electric City Trolley Museum, Fageol, Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad, G. C. Kuhlman Car Company, George Hilton (historian), Hall-Scott, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Horsecar, Interurban, Interurban Press, Islington Railway Workshops, Japan Railways Group, Jewett Car Company, John George Brill, John Stephenson Company, Kalmbach Publishing, Kyushu Railway Company, List of tram builders, Lynn, Massachusetts, Mac Sebree, Montreal, National Register of Historic Places, Norristown High Speed Line, Orange Empire Railway Museum, Passenger car (rail), PCC streetcar, Pennsylvania, Peter Witt streetcar, Philadelphia, Philadelphia and Western Railroad, Preston Car Company, Rockhill Trolley Museum, Seashore Trolley Museum, South Australian Railways, South Australian Railways Brill railcar, Stanford University Press, Tram, Trolleybus, ..., Wason Manufacturing Company. Expand index (1 more) »

American Car and Foundry Company

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

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American Car Company

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

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Aru Ressha

The is a two-car deluxe excursion train operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) in Japan since August 2015.

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Bi-directional vehicle

A bi-directional vehicle is a vehicle that can be driven in either direction, forwards or backwards.

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Birney

A Birney or Birney Safety Car is a type of streetcar that was manufactured in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s.

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Bogie

A bogie (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework carrying wheelsets, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.

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Bullet (interurban)

The Bullet was a high-speed electric multiple-unit passenger car produced by the J. G. Brill Company in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia and Western Railroad (P&W) in 1931, and then similar, somewhat smaller single-unit, single-end versions were built for the Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad in 1932. Few were sold because of the Great Depression and the public transport decline in the 1930s. However, some of the P&W cars ran for almost 60 years.

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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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Capitol Diner

The Capitol Diner is a historic diner at 431 Union Street in Lynn, Massachusetts.

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Convair

Convair was an American aircraft manufacturing company which later expanded into rockets and spacecraft.

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Doodlebug (rail car)

In the United States, doodlebug or hoodlebug is a name for a type of self-propelled railcar most commonly configured with both a passenger and freight compartment.

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Electric City Trolley Museum

The Electric City Trolley Museum is located in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, next to the Steamtown National Historic Site.

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Fageol

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

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Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad

The Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad (FJ&G) was formerly a 132-mile steam engine and electric interurban railroad that connected its namesake towns in east central New York State to Schenectady, New York.

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G. C. Kuhlman Car Company

The G. C. Kuhlman Car Company was a leading American manufacturer of streetcars and interurbans in the early 20th century.

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George Hilton (historian)

George Woodman Hilton (January 18, 1925 – August 4, 2014) was a United States historian and economist, who specialized in social history, transportation economics, regulation by commission, the history of economic thought and labor history.

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Hall-Scott

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

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a historical society founded in 1824 and based in Philadelphia.

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Horsecar

A horsecar, or horse-drawn tram, is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.

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Interurban

The interurban (or radial railway) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like light electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns.

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Interurban Press

Interurban Press was a small, privately owned American publishing company, specializing in books about streetcars, other forms of rail transit and railroads in North America, from 1943MacDougall, Kent (May 19, 1983).

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Islington Railway Workshops

The Islington Railway Workshops are railway workshops in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

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Japan Railways Group

The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as, consists of seven for-profit companies that took over most of the assets and operations of the government-owned Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987.

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Jewett Car Company

The Jewett Car Company was an early 20th-century American industrial company that manufactured streetcars and interurban cars.

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John George Brill

John George Brill (German: Johann Georg Brill) (Kassel, Germany, 1817 – 1888) was a co-founder of J. G. Brill and Company, which, at its height, was the largest manufacturer of streetcars and interurban cars in the United States.

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John Stephenson Company

The John Stephenson Car Company was an American manufacturer of carriages, horsecars, cable cars, and streetcars, based in New York City.

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Kalmbach Publishing

Kalmbach Publishing Co. is an American publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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Kyushu Railway Company

The, also referred to as, is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group).

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List of tram builders

This is a worldwide list of tram builders.

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Lynn, Massachusetts

Lynn is the 9th largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County.

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Mac Sebree

George McClellan Sebree III (August 26, 1932 – March 7, 2010), better known as Mac Sebree, was an American journalist, writer and publisher whose area of expertise was urban mass transit, particularly urban rail transit.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Norristown High Speed Line

The Norristown High Speed Line (NHSL) is a interurban rapid transit line operated by SEPTA, running between the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby and the Norristown Transportation Center in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Orange Empire Railway Museum

The Orange Empire Railway Museum (OERM, reporting mark OERX), on 2201 South "A" Street in Perris, California, is a railroad museum founded in 1956 at the Pinacate Station as the "Orange Empire Trolley Museum." The museum also operates a heritage railroad on the museum grounds.

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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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PCC streetcar

The PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) is a streetcar (tram) design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Peter Witt streetcar

The Peter Witt streetcar was introduced by Cleveland Railway commissioner Peter Witt (1869-1948) who led the transit agency from 1911-1915 and designed a model of streetcar known by his name that was used in many North American cities, most notably in Toronto and Cleveland.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia and Western Railroad

The Philadelphia and Western Railroad was a high-speed, third rail-equipped, commuter-hauling interurban electric railroad operating in the western suburbs of the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Preston Car Company

The Preston Car Company was a Canadian manufacturer of streetcars and other railway equipment, founded in 1908.

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Rockhill Trolley Museum

The Rockhill Trolley Museum is located at 430 Meadow Street, Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and south of US 22, the William Penn Highway.

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Seashore Trolley Museum

The Seashore Trolley Museum, located in Kennebunkport, Maine, United States, is the world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

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South Australian Railways

South Australian Railways was the statutory corporation through which the Government of South Australia built and operated railways in South Australia from 1854 until March 1978, when its non-urban railways were incorporated into Australian National, and its Adelaide urban lines were transferred to the State Transport Authority.

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South Australian Railways Brill railcar

The South Australian Railways Model Brill railcar were two types of railcars operated by the South Australian Railways between 1925 and 1971.

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Stanford University Press

The Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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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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Wason Manufacturing Company

The Wason Manufacturing Company was a maker of railway passenger coaches and streetcars during the 19th and early 20th century.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Brill_Company

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