Company | Plant Location | Date | Successor, Comments or Cross-reference |
Eagle Foundry | Montreal, QC | 1830s | |
Eagle Works (P.W. Gates) | Chicago, IL | 1850s | |
Eason & Dotterer | Charleston, NC | 1830s | Rebuilt Best Friend of Charleston (after its explosion) and other early SC locomotives; no cars. |
East Railcar Corp. | New Castle, PA | 1994-1996 | |
Eastern Car Co. Ltd. | Trenton, NS | 1912-1963 | Acquired 1956 by Dominion Steel & Coal Co. but continued under Eastern name. |
Easton Car Co. | Easton, PA | c1910 | Catalog of 2- and 4-wheel rail cars |
Easton Car & Construction Co. | Easton, PA Had offices in NYC ca. 1930 |
c1915 c1930 |
Listed under “Car Builders” in White-Orr's 1930 Classified Business Directory NYC section. |
Eastwick & Harrison | Philadelphia, PA | 1838-1844 |
From Garrett & Eastwick Built about 20 locomotives; no cars. 1st to promote the 4-4-0 “American” type locomotive using patented equalizing lever. (See J. Leander Bishop, A History of American Manufacturers From 1608 to 1860 (Philadelphia, PA: Edward Young, 1868; Reprint, New York, NY: Augustus M. Kelley, 1966), v. 2, p. 523ff, article on Joseph Harrison Jr.) |
Eaton & Gilbert | Troy, NY | 1841-1844 | To Eaton, Gilbert & Company. |
Eaton, Gilbert & Co. | Troy, NY | 1844-1862 | From Eaton & Gilbert. To Uri Gilbert & Son. |
Edison General Electric Co. | From Sprague Elec. Rwy. & Motor Co. | ||
Edwards Railway Motor Car Co. | Sanford, NC |
early 1920s- late 1940s |
Built only self-propelled railcars. |
Electro-Motive Co. | Cleveland, OH | 1922/24-1930 | Acquired by General Motors. |
Electric Car & Locomotive Corp. | c1917-c1922 | May be either related to, or an outgrowth of, the Railway Storage Battery Car Company, as its President was Ralph H. Beach, who had been head of that firm. | |
Elkhart Car Works Co. | Elkhart, IN | c1882-1883 | |
Elliott Car Co. | Gadsden, AL | c1885-1904 | To Southern Car & Foundry Company, 1899. |
Ellis Car Co. | Amesbury, MA | 1889-1894 | |
Elmira Car Manufactory | Elmira, NY | 1862-1886 | Leased to Erie & Atlantic Sleeping Car Co., c1875 |
Elmira Car Works | Elmira, NY | 1851/52-1858 | To Erie Railroad. |
Emmons Rail Car | York, PA | ||
Empire Car Co. | Chicago, IL | c1910 | Advertised: Car construction and repairing. |
Empire Car Co. | St. Louis, MO | c1901 | |
Empire Car Works | York, PA | c1849/c1865-c1884/1890? | |
Ensign Mfg. Co. | Huntington, WV | c1873/1879-1899 | One of the original companies consolidated into American Car & Foundry. |
English Car Mfg. | 1927-1930 | ||
Enterprise Railway Equipment Co. | Chicago, IL | c1919 | |
Erie & Atlantic Sleeping Coach Co. | Elmira, NY | -1870 | To Pullman. |
Erie Car Works | Erie, PA | 1868-c1920 | |
Erie Motor Car Co. | Erie, PA | c1890 | |
Erie Railroad, Elmira Shops | Elmira, PA | 1858-1870 | To
Erie & Atlantic Sleeping Car Company. (An operating company. Unknown whether this firm ever built any cars.) |
Essex Co. | Lawrence, MA | 1850-1852 | Known as a locomotive builder; never built cars. |
Etna Car Works | Billmeyer & Small | ||
Eureka Engineering Co. | Eureka, CA | 1909/10 | Built one locomotive for Bayside Lumber Company. |
Evans Products | Guelph Junction, ON | 1964-1968 | |
Evans Products | Plymouth, MI | 1964-1972 | |
Evans & Patriquin | Newburyport, MA | 1887-1887 | To Newburyport Car & Mfg. Company. |
Company | Plant Location | Date | Successor, Comments or Cross-reference |