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American Car and Foundry (often abbreviated as ACF) is a manufacturer of railroad rolling stock and locomotives. It was once a bus manufacturer under the ACF-Brill name. Today ACF is known as ACF Industries LLC and is based in St. Charles, Missouri.1

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History

American Car and Foundry was formed and incorporated in New Jersey in 1899 as the result of the merger of 13 smaller railroad car manufacturers. The company was made up of:

Later in 1899, ACF acquired Bloomsburg Car Manufacturing Company (of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania). Two years later, ACF acquired Jackson and Sharp Company (founded 1863 in Wilmington, Delaware), and the Common Sense Bolster Company (of Chicago, Illinois). The unified company made a great investment in the former Jackson & Woodin plant in Pennsylvania, spending about $3 million. It was at this plant that ACF built the first all-steel passenger car in the world in 1904. The car was built for the Interborough Rapid Transit system of New York City, the first of 300 such cars ordered by the railroad.

1904 and 1905 saw ACF build several motor cars and trailers for the London Underground. In these two years, ACF also acquired Southern Car and Foundry (founded 1899 in Memphis, Tennessee), Indianapolis Car and Foundry and Indianapolis Car Company.

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Timeline

A refrigerator car built by ACF in 1911.

Products

Historically, ACF built passenger and freight cars. One of the largest customers was Union Pacific, whose armor-yellow carbon steel lightweight passenger rolling stock was mostly built by ACF. Famous dome-observation Native Son was an ACF product. Today, the American passenger car market is erratic in production, and is mostly handled by specialty manufacturers. Competitors Budd, Pullman-Standard, and St. Louis Car have all either exited the market or gone out of business. Currently, ACF builds mostly covered hopper cars for hauling items like corn or other grains. Other products are mainly miscellaneous steel products.

References

  1. ^ "Hoovers Company Search: ACF Industries". Retrieved on 2008-01-09.
  2. ^ White, John H., Jr. (1993). The American Railroad Freight Car. Boston and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, p 142. ISBN 0-8018-5236-6. 
  3. ^ "R26/R28/R29". NYCSubway.org (2005). Retrieved on 2007-12-03.
  4. ^ Chronological History - Union Pacific Railroad Company
  5. ^ Kaminski, Edward S. (1999). - American Car & Foundry Company: A Centennial History, 1899-1999. - Wilton, California: Signature Press. - ISBN 0963379100
  6. ^ "A new fleet shapes up. (High-Tech Railroading)". - Railway Age. - (c/o HighBeam Research). - September 1, 1990

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Railroad car manufacturing predecessors of American Car and Foundry Company
1899 merger
Later acquisitions
Bloomsburg (1899) · Jackson & Sharp, Common Sense Bolster (1901) · Southern (1904) · ICF, Indianapolis (1905) · Pacific (1924) · Brill (1926)
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