Barney and Smith Car Company

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Dayton Car Works in 1875

Barney and Smith Car Company was a railroad car manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio.

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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Coach GN 3261, built in 1906.

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.

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Grizzly Flats Railroad Coach #5, at the Southern California Railway Museum. This car was built in 1881 by the Barney & Smith Car Company for the Carson and Colorado Railroad.

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

• List of rolling stock manufacturers

External links

• A History of the Barney & Smith Car Company
• Barney and Smith Company