Throughout railroad history, many manufacturing companies have come and gone. Here is a list of companies that manufactured railroad car

Railroad car

A railroad car or railway vehicle , also known as a bogie in Indian English, is a vehicle on a rail transport system that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotives...

s and other rolling stock. As most of these companies built both passenger and freight

Railroad car

A railroad car or railway vehicle , also known as a bogie in Indian English, is a vehicle on a rail transport system that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotives...

 equipment, no distinction is made between the two for this list.

Note that this list includes names of works owned by railroads for manufacturing their own rolling stock.

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South America	Argentina
See also

Argentina

• EMFERhttp://www.emfer.com.ar
• Materfer http://materfer.com/
• Fabricaciones Militares

Canada

• Bombardier Transportation
  Bombardier Transportation
  Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm, Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail-equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin, Germany....
  
  
• National Steel Car Corporation (National)
• Canandian Car and Foundry
• Urban Transportation Development Corporation
  Urban Transportation Development Corporation
  The Urban Transportation Development Corporation, or UTDC as it was commonly known, was an Ontario, Canada, Crown corporation created in the 1970s as a way to enter what was then expected to be a burgeoning market in advanced light rail mass transit systems...
  
  
• Montreal Locomotive Works
  Montreal Locomotive Works
  Montreal Locomotive Works was a Canadian railway locomotive manufacturer which existed under several names from 1883–1985, producing both steam and diesel locomotives. For a number of years it was a subsidiary of the American Locomotive Company...
  
   - Toronto Transit Commission
  Toronto Transit Commission
  -Island Ferry:The ferry service to the Toronto Islands was operated by the TTC from 1927 until 1962, when it was transferred to the Metro Parks and Culture department. Since 1998, the ferry service is run by Toronto Parks and Recreation.-Gray Coach:...
  
   subway cars
• Preston Car Company
  Preston Car Company
  The Preston Car Company was a Canadian manufacturer of streetcars and other railway equipment, founded in 1908. The company was located in the town of Preston, Ontario...
  
  
• Hawker Siddeley Canada
  Hawker Siddeley Canada
  Hawker Siddeley Canada was the Canadian unit of the Hawker Siddeley Group of the United Kingdom and manufactured railcars, subway cars, streetcars, aircraft engines and ships from the 1960s to 1980s.-History:...
  
  
• Ottawa Car Company
  Ottawa Car Company
  Ottawa Car Company was a builder of streetcars for the Canadian market and was founded in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1891. The plant was located at Kent and Slater Streets, a short distance from Parliament Hill...
  
   - interurban cars
• Arva Industries
  Arva Industries
  Arva Industries is a company that specializes in work equipment for military, industrial, rail and resource sectors. The company is based in St. Thomas, Ontario.-Products:* RT56 Vacuum rodder car* AVRA0309 Hydraulic crane* AVRA0280 Hydraulic crane...
  
  

China

• CSR Corporation Limited (subsidiaries)
• China North Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry Group
• Bombardier Sifang-Power (Qingdao) Transportation Limited - joint venture

India

• Integral Coach Factory
  Integral Coach Factory
  Started in 1952, the Integral Coach Factory is located in Chennai, India. Its primary products are rail coaches. Most of the coaches manufactured are supplied to the Indian Railways, but it has also manufactured coaches for railway companies in other countries, including Thailand, Burma, Taiwan,...
  
  
• Rail Coach Factory
  Rail Coach Factory
  Established in 1986, the Rail Coach Factory was the second coach manufacturing unit of Indian Railways. Its foundation stone was laid by the then Prime Minister of India Mr. Rajiv Gandhi...
  
  
• BEML
  BEML
  Bharat Earth Movers Limited now known as BEML is an Indian Public Sector Undertaking, with headquarters in Bangalore. It manufactures a variety of heavy equipment, such as that used for earth moving, transport and mining....
  
  
• Bombardier Transportation
  Bombardier Transportation
  Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm, Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world's largest companies in the rail-equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. Its headquarters are in Berlin, Germany....
  
  
• Hindusthan Engineering & Industries Ltd
• Texmaco Ltd
• Burn Standard Co. Ltd
• Bharat Wagon & Engineering Co
• Titagarh Wagons Ltd
• Braithwaite Co. Ltd
• Jessop & Co. Ltd
• BESCO Ltd
• Diesel Locomotive Works
  Diesel Locomotive Works
  The Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi, India, is a production unit owned by Indian Railways, for which it manufactures diesel-electric locomotives and spare parts.-Company:...
  
  
• Chittaranjan Locomotive Works

Iran

• TWM "Tehran Wagon Manufaturing co."
• IRICO
  IRICO (Iran)
  Iran Khodro Rail Transport Industries Company was established by Iran Khodro Investment Development Company in 2003 for manufacturing different types of rolling stock...
  
  
• Wagon Pars
  Wagon Pars
  Wagon Pars is an Iranian train manufacturing company established in 1974, in Arak, Iran.Products include locomotives, trains, metros, freight and fuel wagons, and equipment for passenger boarding of aircraft.-History:...
  
  
• Mapna Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company
• Polour Sabz

Italy

• AnsaldoBreda
• Corifer
• Firema
• Fiat Ferroviaria
  Fiat Ferroviaria
  thumb|300px|[[FS Class E626]] locomotive, a mainstay of Italian railways starting from the 1930s.Fiat Ferroviaria was the rail division of FIAT of Italy....
  
   (now part of Alstom
  Alstom
  Alstom is a large multinational conglomerate which holds interests in the power generation and transport markets. According to the company website, in the years 2010-2011 Alstom had annual sales of over €20.9 billion, and employed more than 85,000 people in 70 countries. Alstom's headquarters are...
  
  )

Japan

• Hitachi, Ltd.
  Hitachi, Ltd.
  is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...
  
  
• Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company
  Kawasaki Heavy Industries Rolling Stock Company
  is the rolling stock production division of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Since beginning operations in 1906, the company has produced more than 90,000 railroad vehicles.- Products :...
  
  
• Kinki Sharyo
  Kinki Sharyo
  is an Osaka, Japan-based manufacturer of railroad vehicles. It is an affiliate company of Kintetsu Corporation.In business since 1920 and renamed The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd in 1945...
  
  
• Niigata Transys Company
  Niigata Transys Company
  is a Japanese railway vehicle and equipment manufacturer.-LRV:* KCT - Kumamoto City Transportation* MOMO - Okayama Electric Railway* Portam TLR0600 tramcar* Centram 9000 series tramcar-Diesel Multiple Units:* KiHa 32 series* KiHa 48 series* KiHa 85 series...
  
  
• Nippon Sharyo
  Nippon Sharyo
  , , formed in 1896, is a major rolling stock manufacturer based in Nagoya, Japan. In 1996, it abbreviated its name to "日本車両" Nippon Sharyō. Its shortest abbreviation is Nissha "日車". It was a listed company on Nikkei 225 until 2004. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange...
  
  
• Tokyu Car Corporation
  Tokyu Car Corporation
  is a manufacturer of heavy rail cars in Japan. The company is based in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama, Japan, and a member of Tokyu Group. Tokyu Car manufactures rail vehicles not only for Tokyu Corporation but for other Japanese operators, including various Japan Railways Group companies and...
  
  
• Toshiba
  Toshiba
  is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
  
  

Serbia

• Bratstvo
  Bratstvo
  Bratstvo may refer to:*FK Bratstvo Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina football club*FK Bratstvo Cijevna, Montenegrin football club*NK Bratstvo Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina football club*FK Bratstvo Krnjača, Serbian football club...
  
  
• Fabrika Vagona Kraljevo
• Goša
• Mašinska Industrija Niš (MIN)

Turkey

• Turkish Wagon Industry Inc (TUVASAS)
• Turkish Railway Machines Industry Inc (TUDEMSAS)

United Kingdom

• Andrew Barclay Sons & Co.
• Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd
  Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd
  The Ashbury Carriage and Iron Company Limited was a manufacturer of railway rolling stock founded by John Ashbury in 1837 at Knott Mill in Manchester, England, near the original terminus of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway...
  
  
• Beyer, Peacock and Company
  Beyer, Peacock and Company
  Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English railway Locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Gorton, Manchester. Founded by Charles Beyer and Richard Peacock, it traded from 1854 until 1966...
  
  
• Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
  Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
  The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was a railway locomotive and carriage builder, founded in Birmingham, England and, for most of its existence, located at nearby Smethwick, with the factory was divided by the boundary between the two places...
  
  
• Black, Hawthorn & Co
  Black, Hawthorn & Co
  Black, Hawthorn and Company was a steam locomotive manufacturer with a works situated in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK.-John Coulthard and Son:...
  
  
• British Rail Engineering Limited
  BREL
  British Rail Engineering Limited , was the railway systems engineering division of British Rail, until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1993. On 31 October 1969, the company was incorporated as British Rail Engineering Limited.-Main products:The vast majority of BREL's...
  
   (BREL)
• British Thomson-Houston
  British Thomson-Houston
  British Thomson-Houston was a British engineering and heavy industrial company, based at Rugby, Warwickshire, England. They were known primarily for their electrical systems and steam turbines. They were merged with the similar Metropolitan-Vickers company in 1928, but the two maintained their own...
  
  
• Dick, Kerr & Co.
  Dick, Kerr & Co.
  Dick, Kerr and Company was a locomotive and tramcar manufacturer based in Kilmarnock, Scotland and Preston, England.-Early history:Having previously been known as W.B.Dick and Company the company had built all kinds of tramway equipment and rolling stock. From 1883 the company joined with John Kerr...
  
  
• Drewry Car Co.
  Drewry Car Co.
  Drewry Car Co, strictly speaking, was a railway locomotive and railcar sales organisation for most of its life. Only at the start and the end of its life did it build its own products, relying on sub-contractors for the rest of its time...
  
  
• Dübs and Company
  Dûbs and Company
  Dübs & Co. was a locomotive works in Glasgow, Scotland, founded by Henry Dübs in 1863 and based at the Queens Park Works in Polmadie. In 1903 it became part of the North British Locomotive Company.-Preserved locomotives:...
  
  
• English Electric
  English Electric
  English Electric was a British industrial manufacturer. Founded in 1918, it initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers...
  
  
• Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
  Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
  Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was a railway rolling stock manufacturer based at Gloucester, England; from 1860 until 1986....
  
  
• Hawthorn Leslie and Company
  Hawthorn Leslie and Company
  R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Limited, usually referred to as Hawthorn Leslie, was a shipbuilding and locomotive manufacturer. The Company was founded on Tyneside in 1886 and ceased building ships in 1982.-History:...
  
  
• Hudswell Clarke
  Hudswell Clarke
  Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited was an engineering and locomotive building company in Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.-History:...
  
  
• Hunslet Engine Company
  Hunslet Engine Company
  The Hunslet Engine Company is a British locomotive-building company founded in 1864 at Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England by John Towlerton Leather, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell as his Works Manager.In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for...
  
  
• Kerr Stuart
  Kerr Stuart
  Kerr, Stuart and Company Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer from Stoke-on-Trent, England.-History:It was founded in 1881 by James Kerr as James Kerr & Company, and became Kerr, Stuart & Company from 1883 when John Stuart was taken on as a partner...
  
  
• Manning Wardle
  Manning Wardle
  Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.- Precursor companies :The city of Leeds was one of the earliest centres of locomotive building; Matthew Murray built the first commercially successful steam locomotive, Salamanca, in Holbeck, Leeds,...
  
  
• Metro Cammell
  Metro Cammell
  The Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company was a Birmingham, England based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons, based in Saltley and subsequently Washwood Heath....
  
  
• Metropolitan-Vickers
  Metropolitan-Vickers
  Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, they were particularly well known for their industrial electrical equipment such as generators, steam...
  
  
• Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
  Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
  The Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was a Birmingham, England, based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons. It was not part of the Midland Railway.Its products also included trams and even military tanks....
  
  
• Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company
  Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company
  Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, originally called The Bridgewater Foundry, specialised in the production of heavy machine tools and locomotives. It was located in Patricroft, in Salford England, close to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the Bridgewater Canal and the Manchester Ship Canal...
  
  
• North British Locomotive Company
  North British Locomotive Company
  The North British Locomotive Company was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp Stewart and Company , Neilson, Reid and Company and Dübs and Company , creating the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe.Its main factories were...
  
  
• Pressed Steel Company
  Pressed Steel Company
  The Pressed Steel Company Limited was a British car body manufacturing company founded at Cowley near Oxford in 1926 as a joint venture between William Morris, the Budd Corporation and an American bank. Today at what was the company's Cowley plant, the BMW new MINI is assembled, this site is...
  
  
• R and W Hawthorn
  R and W Hawthorn
  R and W Hawthorn Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer in Newcastle upon Tyne, England from 1817 until 1880.-Locomotive building:Robert Hawthorne first began business at Forth Bank Works in 1817, building marine and stationary steam engines. In 1820, his brother joined him and the firm became R and W...
  
  
• Robert Stephenson and Company
  Robert Stephenson and Company
  Robert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823. It was the first company set up specifically to build railway engines.- Foundation and early success :...
  
  
• Sentinel Waggon Works
  Sentinel Waggon Works
  Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries, railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries and locomotives.-Alley & MacLellan, Sentinel Works, Jessie Street Glasgow:...
  
  
• St. Rollox railway works
  St. Rollox railway works
  St. Rollox Locomotive Works and St Rollox Carriage and Wagon Works were built in 1856 in Springburn, an area in the north-east of Glasgow, for the Caledonian Railway, moving away from their works at Greenock...
  
  
• Swindon Works
  Swindon Works
  Swindon railway works were built by the Great Western Railway in 1841 in Swindon in the English county of Wiltshire.-History:In 1835 Parliament approved the construction of a railway between London and Bristol. Its Chief Engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel.From 1836, Brunel had been buying...
  
  
• Vulcan Foundry
  Vulcan Foundry
  Vulcan Foundry was a British locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire .-History:It was originally opened in 1832 as Charles Tayleur and Company to produce girders for bridges, switches and crossings, and other ironwork following the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway...
  
  
• William Beardmore and Company
  William Beardmore and Company
  William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active between about 1890 and 1930 and at its peak employed about 40,000 people...
  
  
• Yorkshire Engine Company
  Yorkshire Engine Company
  The Yorkshire Engine Company was a small independent locomotive manufacturer in Sheffield, England. The Company was formed in 1865 and continued to produce locomotives and carry out general engineering work until 1965...
  
  

United States

• Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa)
• American Car and Foundry (ACF)
• Baltimore Car and Foundry
• Barney and Smith Car Company
• Bettendorf Company
• Bethlehem Steel Company
• Billmeyer and Small
• Bloomsburg Car Manufacturing Company
• J. G. Brill and Company (Brill)
• Budd Company
  Budd Company
  The Budd Company is a metal fabricator and major supplier of body components to the automobile industry, and was formerly a manufacturer of stainless steel passenger rail cars during the 20th century....
  
   (Budd)
• Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company
  Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company
  Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company, also known as Buffalo Car Company or Buffalo Car Works, was an American manufacturer of railroad freight cars in the late 19th century...
  
  
• Cambria Steel Company
• Chicago Steel Car Company
• Clark Car Company
• Colorado Railcar
  Colorado Railcar
  Colorado Railcar was a manufacturer of railroad rolling stock, railcars and diesel multiple unit commuter vehicles. Both products come in single- and double-level versions. It shut down in 2008, with its assets being purchased by US Railcar.-History:...
  
  
• William Dyer
  William Dyer
  William Dyer may refer to:* William Dyer , American actor* William Dyer , husband of Mary Dyer* William G. Dyer , American educator* Willie Dyer , Scottish footballer...
  
  
• Eastern Car Company
• Edwards Rail Car Company
  Edwards Rail Car Company
  Edwards Rail Car Company was located in the small town of Sanford, North Carolina, specializing in the manufacture of self-propelled rail cars.-History:...
  
   (1921-1942)
• Edwards Rail Car Company (1997–2008)
  Edwards Rail Car Company (1997–2008)
  Edwards Rail Car Company was located in Montgomery, Alabama, specializing in the manufacture of self-propelled rail cars patterned after original Edwards designs dating from the mid-1920s...
  
  
• Ensign Manufacturing Company
  Ensign Manufacturing Company
  Ensign Manufacturing Company, founded as Ensign Car Works in 1872, was a railroad car manufacturing company based in Huntington, West Virginia. In the 1880s and 1890s Ensign's production of wood freight cars made the company of the three largest sawmill operators in Cabell County...
  
  
• Enterprise Railway Equipment Company
• FreightCar America
  FreightCar America
  FreightCar America is a manufacturer of freight cars for the railway industry.The company began operations in 1901, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It is engaged in the business of building, repairing, and leasing freight cars, largely for the transportation of bulk materials like coal,...
  
   (formerly Johnstown America Corporation)
• General American Car Company
• Gilbert Car Company
  Gilbert Car Company
  Gilbert Car Company was a railroad car builder based in Troy, New York. It began manufacturing streetcars in the late 1880s.Founded by Orsamus Eaton and Uri Gilbert , the company changed names several times as the partnership changed:...
  
  
• The Greenbrier Companies
  The Greenbrier Companies
  The Greenbrier Companies is a publicly traded transportation manufacturing corporation based in Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States. Predominantly an American company, Greenbrier specializes in transportation services, notably barge and railroad car manufacturing, railroad car refurbishment, and...
  
   (Greenbrier)
• Greenville Steel Car Company
• Gunderson
  Gunderson
  Gunderson is a surname of Norwegian origin which can refer to these people:*Lance Armstrong, born Lance Edward Gunderson, American cyclist.*Carl Gunderson , Governor of South Dakota*Steven Craig Gunderson , United States congressman...
  
  
• Haskell and Barker Car Company
• Hicks Locomotive and Car Works
  Hicks Locomotive and Car Works
  The Hicks Locomotive and Car Works was one of many small railway equipment construction companies operating in the United States at the dawn of the 20th century. It stayed in business for only 21 years.- History :...
  
  
• Illinois Car and Manufacturing Company
• Indianapolis Car Company
• Indianapolis Car and Foundry
• Jackson and Sharp Company
  Jackson and Sharp Company
  Jackson and Sharp Company was an American railroad car manufacturer and shipbuilder in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was founded in 1863 by Job H. Jackson , a tinsmith and retail merchant, and Jacob F. Sharp Jackson and Sharp Company was an American railroad car manufacturer...
  
   (Delaware Car Works)
• Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company
  Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company
  Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Company, also called Jackson & Woodin Car Works, was an American railroad freight car manufacturing company of the late 19th century headquartered in Berwick, Pennsylvania. In 1899, Jackson and Woodin was merged with twelve other freight car manufacturing companies...
  
  
• Laconia Car Company
• Liberty Car and Equipment
• Mago Car Corporation
• Mather Stock Car Company
  Mather Stock Car Company
  The Mather Stock Car Company was a U.S. corporation that built railroad rolling stock. Mather specialized in stock cars, but built other types of cars as well, including boxcars. The company was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Their main headquarters building, Mather Tower, built in 1928 in...
  
  
• Merchants Despatch Transportation Company
• Michigan Car Company
  Michigan Car Company
  The Michigan Car Company was a railroad rolling stock manufacturer located in Detroit, Michigan.The Michigan Car Company was organized in 1864 by John S. Newberry and James McMillan to manufacture railroad cars for the Union Army. In 1873 it relocated its main factory to Grand Trunk Junction...
  
   (1864-1892)
• Michigan-Peninsular Car Company
  Michigan-Peninsular Car Company
  The Michigan-Peninsular Car Company was a railroad rolling stock manufacturing company formed from the merger of five manufacturing companies in 1892...
  
  
• Middletown Car Company
• Minerva Car Works
• Missouri Car and Foundry Company
• Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Company
• Murray, Dougal and Company
• Newport News Shipbuilding Company
• Niagara Car Wheel Company
• North American Car Corporation of Chicago
• Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company
• Ortner Freight Car Company
• Osgood Bradley Car Company
  Osgood Bradley Car Company
  The Osgood Bradley Car Company manufactured railway passenger cars and streetcars in Worcester, Massachusetts.-History:The company was founded in 1822 to manufacture stagecoaches and sleighs. The company's first railway passenger cars were built for the Boston and Worcester Railroad in 1835. ...
  
  
• Pacific Car and Foundry
• Peninsular Car Company
  Peninsular Car Company
  The Peninsular Car Company was a railroad rolling stock manufacturer, founded by Charles L. Freer and Frank J. Hecker in 1885.In 1892, the company merged with Michigan Car Company, the Russel Wheel and Foundry Company, the Detroit Car Wheel Company and several smaller manufacturers to form the...
  
  
• Pennsylvania Car Company
• Perley A. Thomas Car Works
  Perley A. Thomas Car Works
  Perley A. Thomas Car Works, Inc. was a 20th century builder of wooden and steel streetcars, based in High Point, North Carolina in the United States.It was named for its founder, Perley A. Thomas...
  
  
• Portland Company
  Portland Company
  The Portland Company was established 10 November 1846 by John A. Poor and Norris Locomotive Works engineer Septimus Norris as a locomotive foundry to build railroad equipment for the adjacent Portland terminus of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad connection between Portland, Maine and...
  
  
• Pressed Steel Car Company
  Pressed Steel Car Company
  On January 13 1899 the Pressed Steel Car Company was incorporated in New Jersey with an authorized capitalization of $25 million, for the stated purpose of “manufacturing passenger, freight and street railway cars and to make trucks, wheels, and other parts of cars”...
  
  
• Pullman Company
  Pullman Company
  The Pullman Palace Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the early decades of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States. Pullman developed the sleeping car which carried his name into the 1980s...
  
   (Pullman)
• Pullman-Standard (PS)
• Ralston Steel Car Company
  Ralston Steel Car Company
  The Ralston Steel Car Company operated in Columbus, Ohio, from 1905-1953. The company began by modifying wood freight cars to add steel underframes. Later it manufactured its own line of all-steel rail cars.- Founding :...
  
  
• Ranlet Car Company
• Richmond Car Works
• Rohr, Inc.
  Rohr, Inc.
  Goodrich Aerostructures Group, formerly Rohr, Inc., is an aerospace manufacturing company based in Chula Vista, California, south of San Diego...
  
  
• Ryan Car Company
• St. Charles Car Company
  St. Charles Car Company
  St. Charles Car Company, a railroad rolling stock manufacturing company located in St. Charles, Missouri, was founded in 1872 or 1873. In 1899 it merged with twelve other companies to form American Car and Foundry . The St. Charles plant became the main passenger car works. With a failing market...
  
  
• St. Louis Car Company
  St. Louis Car Company
  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:...
  
   (SLCC)
• Southern Car and Foundry
• Standard Steel Car Company
  Standard Steel Car Company
  The Standard Steel Car Company was a manufacturer of railroad rolling stock in the United States that existed between 1902 and 1934....
  
  
• Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
• Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company
• Thrall Car Manufacturing Company
  Thrall Car Manufacturing Company
  Thrall Car was started by "Pops" Thrall in Chicago Heights, Illinois, as a railcar repair facility. Over the years Thrall expanded to a railcar builder with plants across the United States and in Europe...
  
   (Thrall)
• Union Car Company
• US Car and Foundry
• US Railcar
  US Railcar
  US Railcar is a manufacturer of railroad rolling stock, including passenger cars and diesel multiple units. It was formed in 2009 and is the successor company to Colorado Railcar after that company shut down in December 2008.-History:...
  
  
• Wagner Palace Car Company
• Wason Manufacturing Company
  Wason Manufacturing Company
  The Wason Manufacturing Company was a maker of railway passenger coaches and streetcars during the 19th and early 20th century. The company was founded in 1845 in Springfield, Massachusetts by Charles Wason and Thomas Wason ....
  
  
• Wells and French Company
• Western Steel Car and Foundry
• Youngstown Steel Car Company

External links

• http://www.railfrance.org/category2.asp?SubCatID=34 , list of mostly European rolling stock
  Rolling stock
  Rolling stock comprises all the vehicles that move on a railway. It usually includes both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives, railroad cars, coaches and wagons...
  
   and locomotive
  Locomotive
  A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
  
  manufacturers and their websites (in French).