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== Products ==
== Products ==
[[File:Chicago St Louis Car-built trolley bus 9400 in 1968.jpg|thumb|right|A St. Louis Car-built [[Trolleybus|trolley bus]] in Chicago, in 1968]]
[[File:Chicago St Louis Car-built trolley bus 9400 in 1968.jpg|thumb|right|A St. Louis Car-built [[Trolleybus|trolley bus]] in Chicago, in 1968]]
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* [[San Diego Class 1 Streetcars]] (1910-1912)
* [[PCC streetcar|PCC]] [[streetcar]]s (1930s-1950s)
* [[PCC streetcar|PCC]] [[streetcar]]s (1930s-1950s)
* [[Peter Witt streetcar]]s
* [[Peter Witt streetcar]]s
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* [[Chicago 'L'|CTA]] [[CTA 1-50 series|1-50]] [[PCC streetcar|PCC]] elevated-subway cars (1959–60) - retired 1999
* [[Chicago 'L'|CTA]] [[CTA 1-50 series|1-50]] [[PCC streetcar|PCC]] elevated-subway cars (1959–60) - retired 1999
* [[Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad]] [[Electroliner]] (1941)
* [[Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad]] [[Electroliner]] (1941)
* [[State of the Art Car]] heavy rail transit demonstrator set for [[U.S. Department of Transportation|US DOT]] (1974) - now at [[Seashore Trolley Museum]]
* [[State of the Art Car]] heavy rail transit demonstrator set for [[U.S. Department of Transportation|US DOT]] (1972) - now at [[Seashore Trolley Museum]]
* [[Metra]] [[Metra Electric Line|Illinois Central Electric District]] [[Highliner]] [[Electric multiple unit|electric MU cars]] (1971–72)
* [[Metra]] [[Metra Electric Line|Illinois Central Electric District]] [[Highliner]] [[Electric multiple unit|electric MU cars]] (1971–72)
* [[NJ Transit]] (NJ DOT/[[Penn Central]]) [[Arrow (railcar)#Arrow I|Arrow I]] electric MU cars (1968–69)
* [[NJ Transit]] (NJ DOT/[[Penn Central]]) [[Arrow (railcar)#Arrow I|Arrow I]] electric MU cars (1968–69)
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* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R36 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)|R36 WF]] (1963–64)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R36 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)|R36 WF]] (1963–64)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R38 (New York City Subway car)|R38]] (1966–67)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R38 (New York City Subway car)|R38]] (1966–67)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R40 (New York City Subway car)|R40]] (1968–69)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R40 (New York City Subway car)|R40]] (1967–69)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R40A (New York City Subway car)|R40M]] (1969)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R40A (New York City Subway car)|R40M]] (1969)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R42 (New York City Subway car)|R42]] (1969–70)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R42 (New York City Subway car)|R42]] (1969–70)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R44 (New York City Subway car)|R44]] (1972–73)
* [[New York City Subway|NYCT]] [[R44 (New York City Subway car)|R44]] (1971–73)
* [[Philadelphia & Western Railroad]] original wood cars and freight motors (1907)
* [[Port Authority Trans-Hudson|Hudson & Manhattan Railroad/PATH]] "K-car"/MP51 (1958)
* [[Port Authority Trans-Hudson|Hudson & Manhattan Railroad/PATH]] "K-car"/MP51 (1958)
* [[Port Authority Trans-Hudson|PATH]] PA1 (1965)
* [[Port Authority Trans-Hudson|PATH]] PA1 (1965)
* [[Port Authority Trans-Hudson|PATH]] PA2 (1967)
* [[Port Authority Trans-Hudson|PATH]] PA2 (1967)
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* [[San Diego Class 1 Streetcars]] (1910-1912)
* [[Seaboard Air Line]] [[SAL 2027|2027-2028]] [[Railcar]]s (1936)
* [[Seaboard Air Line]] [[SAL 2027|2027-2028]] [[Railcar]]s (1936)
* [[SEPTA]] Silverliner III (PRR MP85) cars (1967)
* [[SEPTA]] [[|Silverliner|Silverliner III]] (PRR MP85) cars (1967)
* [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] [[FM OP800]] [[Railcar]]s (1939)
* [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] [[FM OP800]] [[Railcar]]s (1939)
* [[Staten Island Railway]] [[R44 (New York City Subway car)|R44]] (1973) (last St. Louis cars)
* [[Victorian Railways]] [[Diesel Electric railmotor (VR)|Petrol Electric railmotor]] (1928)
* [[Victorian Railways]] [[Diesel Electric railmotor (VR)|Petrol Electric railmotor]] (1928)


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St. Louis Car Company
IndustryManufacturer
FoundedApril 1887 (1887-04)
FounderWilliam Lefmann, Peter Kling, Juilius Lefmann, Henry Schroeder, Daniel McAllister, Henry Maune, Charles Ernst
Defunct1973 (1973)
Fateceased operations
Headquarters
St. Louis, Missouri
,
USA
Number of locations
St. Louis MO
Area served
United States, Canada
Key people
George J. Kobusch, Peter Kling, John H. Kobusch, Henry F. Vogel
ProductsRailroad passenger cars, locomotives, streetcars, and trolleybuses; automobiles
ParentGeneral Steel Industries (1960–)
SubsidiariesSt. Louis Aircraft Corporation

The St. Louis Car Company was a major United States manufacturer of railroad passenger cars, streetcars, trolleybuses and locomotives that existed from 1887–1973, based in St. Louis, Missouri.

History

The St. Louis Car Company was formed in April 1887 to manufacture and sell streetcars and other kinds of rolling stock of street and steam railways. In succeeding years the company built automobiles, including the American Mors, the Skelton, and the Standard Six. The St. Louis Aircraft Corporation division of the company partnered with the Huttig Sash and Door company in 1917 to produce aircraft. During the two world wars, the company manufactured gliders, trainers, Alligators, flying boats, and dirigible gondolas. Among their most successful products were the Birney Safety Car and the PCC streetcar, a design that was very popular at the time.[1]

The firm went on to build some of the vehicles used in the transit systems of New York City and Chicago, as well as the FM OP800 railcars manufactured exclusively for the Southern Railway in 1939.

In 1960, St. Louis Car Company was acquired by General Steel Industries.[2] In 1964, St. Louis Car completed an order of 430 World's Fair picture-window cars (R36 WF) for the New York City Subway and was continuing work on 162 air-conditioned aluminum cars (PA1/PA2) for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to use on the Port Authority Trans-Hudson line to New Jersey.[3] Also in the mid-1960s, the company completed building the passenger capsules, designed by Planet Corporation, to ferry visitors to the top of the Gateway Arch at the Jefferson National Expansion Museum in St. Louis, Missouri.[4]

St. Louis Car continued business until 1968 and finally ceased operations by 1973.[5] The final St. Louis Car products were R44 subway cars for the New York City Subway and Staten Island Rapid Transit, and the USDOT State of the Art Car rapid transit demonstrator set whose design was based on the R44.

Products

A St. Louis Car-built trolley bus in Chicago, in 1968

See also

References

  1. ^ Andrew D. Young and Eugene Provenzo, The History of the St. Louis Car Company (Howell North Books 1978)
  2. ^ Flagg, James S. (1962). Our 150 Years, 1812 - 1962: In Commemoration of the Madison County Sesquicentennial. Edwardsville, Illinois: East 10 Publishing Company, Inc. p. 53. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthor= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Transportation: Back on the Rails". Time Magazine. August 28, 1964.
  4. ^ Moore, Bob (1994). Urban Innovation and Practical Partnerships: An Administrative History of Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, 1980-1991. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service. ISBN none found. Retrieved April 4, 2011. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  5. ^ Young and Provenzo, 267.

Bibliography

1. Middleton, William, Jr. The Interurban Era, Kalmbach Publishing, Milwaukee WI.

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