Barney and Smith Car Company
Rolling stock manufacturer
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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; -84.175273
Founded in 1849 by Eliam Eliakim Barney and Ebenezer Thresher as Thresher, Packard & Company, it changed names as partners came and went:
- 1850: E. Thresher & Company
- 1854: Barney, Parker & Company - after Caleb Parker joined the firm
- 1867: The Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company - joined by E.E. Barney, Preserved Smith, J.D. Platt, E.J. Barney and A.E.E. Stevens
- 1892: The Barney & Smith Car Company
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Barney & Smith faced challenges from bigger railcar makers in the late 1890s and early 1900s and went into receivership in 1913, when the Great Dayton Flood damaged its facilities; the company finally disappeared in 1921.
Products
- railway passenger cars
- electric street railways (trams or trolley cars)
- interurban railcars
- wooden cars for Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad in Chicago
- railroad chapel cars
See also
External links
- A History of the Barney & Smith Car Company
- Barney and Smith Company