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| Company | Plant Location | Date | Successor, Comments or Cross-reference |
| PACCAR | See Pacific Car & Foundry | ||
| Pacific Car & Foundry |
Renton, WA Portland, OR |
1917-1924 1934-1984 |
Merger of the car building operations of Twohy Brothers Company and
Seattle Car & Foundry Company. Bought by American Car & Foundry 1924; sold back to original owners 1934. Corporate name changed to PACCAR 1972; car building division continued Pacific Car name. |
| Pacific Electric | Los Angeles, CA | 1902-1955 | |
| Pacific Fruit Express | Tucson, AZ | Built refrigerated cars. | |
| Pacific Gas & Electric | Sacramento, CA | early 1900s | |
| Pacific Iron Works | San Francisco, CA | 1850-c1900 |
Locomotive builder; unknown
if it built any cars. Taken over by Rankin, Brayton & Co. in early 1860s. |
| Palm & Robertson | St. Louis, MO | 1848(1853)-(1858)1859 | Partners Alfred C. Robertson and William Palm built 54 locomotives 1853-1858. Built no known cars, although Robertson reportedly left 1857/58 to operate a car plant. |
| Pardee Car & Machine Works | Watsontown, PA | c1875-1890? | Pardee Car & Machine Works is listed under “Car Builders” in 1877 edition, Poor’s Directory of Railway Officials, with Proprietorship as Pardee, Snyder & Co., Ltd. |
| Pardee, Snyder & Co. | Williamsport, PA | 1880s | Pardee, Snyder & Co. is listed under “Car Builders” in 1877 edition, Poor’s Directory of Railway Officials as the Proprietor of Pardee Car & Machine Works. |
| Passavant & Archer | New York City | c1856 | Produced six iron horsecars to La Mothe’s design for the city of Boston |
| Patten Car Works | Bath, ME | 1872-1877/1890? | |
| Patten Motor Car Co. | Pullman, IL | c1891-c1900 | Demonstrated a gasoline-powered self-propelled railcar in 1900. |
| Patterson & Corbin | St. Catharines, ON | 1888-1896 (1887?-1897?) |
Patterson & Corbin is listed under “Car Builders” in 1877 edition, Poor’s Directory of Railway Officials. |
|
Paul, Thomas H., & Son (Thomas H. Paul & Son) |
Frostburg, MD | 1855-c1863 |
Established to produce mining cars and machinery. Unknown just what it DID
produce. To T.H. Paul & Bro. |
|
Paul, T.H., & Brother (T.H. Paul & Brother) |
Frostburg, MD | c1863-1883+ |
Advertised self as "Manufacturers of Steam Engines, Railroad Cars and
Car Wheels - Also, machinery for mines, mine cars and wheels, mill
gearing, steam boilers, and water tanks, &c., &c." Produced
about 15 locos between 1880 and 1883 but more than half were actually
built by the nearby
Mt. Savage Loco Works. Unknown what, if any, cars it produced. (See Railroad History 141, Autumn 1979.) |
| Paxton & Vierling Steel Co. | Omaha, NE | 1980s | |
| Pay-Within Car Co. | Delaware, MD | c1909 | US Pat. 939,899 |
| Peacock Iron Works | Selma, AL? | 1901 | |
| Pease Car & Locomotive Works | 1900-1903 | ||
|
Pease, F.M. (F.M. Pease) |
Toledo, OH | c1900-c1910 | |
|
Pease, F.M., Co. (F.M. Pease Co.) |
Chicago. IL | 1898-1903 | |
| Peninsular Car Co. |
Adrian, MI Detroit, MI |
1879-1892 | To Michigan-Peninsular Car Company |
| Pennell, Lenher & Humes | Lancaster, PA | 1837(1840)-1875 | Built only one locomotive; doubtful any cars. |
| Pennock Bros. |
Pennock Bros. is listed under “Car Builders” in 1877 edition,
Poor’s Directory of Railway Officials. (See Minerva Car Company) |
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| Pennsylvania Car Co. | 1923-1929 | ||
| Pennsylvania Car Works |
Ligonier, PA Transfer Office & Works, Latrobe, PA |
1880s | Listed in Car Builder section of 1887 edition of Poor’s Directory of Railway Officials. |
| Pennsylvania Coal Co. | Scranton, PA | c1847/50 | Constructed both coaches and coal cars for use on its gravity railroad bringing coal down from Hawley, PA, to the Delaware & Hudson Canal. Doubtful it built cars for others. |
| Pennsylvania Engineering Co. | 1905 | ||
| Pennsylvania Equipment | 1910 | ||
| Pennsylvania Iron Works | 1928 | ||
| Pennsylvania Tank Car Co. | Sharon, PA Had offices in NYC ca. 1930 |
1914-1927 |
Made cars for Clarendon Refining Co., Emlenton Refining Co., Foco Oil
Co., Galena Oil Co., Gulf, Sececa Oil Works, Texaco, Titusville Oil
Works, and others. Listed under "Car Builders" in White-Orr's 1930 Classified Business Directory NYC section. Acquired by Petroleum Iron Works Company |
| Perley Thomas Car Co. | See Thomas | ||
| Peteler | 1910-1914 | ||
| Peteler Iron Works | 1927-1930 | ||
| Petersburg Car Works | Petersburg, VA | 1873-?? | |
| Petersburg Iron Works | Petersburg, VA | 1854-1880? | Est. as H.T, Morrison & Company. Offered to build tramway engines mid-1880s. No known car production unless somehow associated with Petersburg Car Works. May have been associated with Appamatox Iron Works, or Tappey & Delaney. |
| Peto & Co. | Montreal, QC | 1855-1856 | Prime contractor for the Grand Trunk Railway; built 600 cars using pre-fabricated components from England. |
| Petroleum Iron Works Co. | Petroleum, OH | 1914-1930s |
Purchased
Pennsylvania Tank Car Co. 1927. Became part of GATX. |
| Pfaudler Co. | 1923-1931 | ||
| Philadelphia Car Works | J.G. Brill | ||
| Philadelphia Car Works | Kimball & Gorton | ||
| Pierson & Benedict | Niagara, ON | 1859 | |
| Pioneer Iron Works | Brooklyn, NY | 1887 | Pioneer Iron Works is listed under “Car Builders” in 1877 edition, Poor’s Directory of Railway Officials. |
| Pittsburgh & McKeesport Car & Locomotive Co. | McKeesport, PA | c1864/65-1878 | Began as car shop, taking over shops of Barnett & Company. Produced 1st of many narrow gauge locomotives 1874. Plant destroyed by fire 2 Oct 1877, together with two shifting engines nearly completed for an unknown road (RRG 12 and 19 Oct). RRG for 2 Feb 1878 reported decision of stockholders not to rebuild plant. (R&LHS No. 103) |
| Pittsburgh Bridge & Iron | 1945 | ||
|
Pittsburgh Car Works (This may be the Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works.) |
Pittsburgh, PA Youngstown, PA [more likely OH] Niles, OH |
c1865-1883 |
Located at
Pittsburgh until 1881; Youngstown, 1881-1901; Niles thereafter. To Youngstown Car Manufacturing Company. |
| Pittsburgh Locomotive & Car Works | Allegheny City (Pittsburgh), PA | 1865-1919 |
Est. by Andrew Carnegie and T.N. Miller with Thatcher Perkins as
Superintendent. Built 2,400 locomotives 1865-1901. Doubtful it ever
built any cars. Became part of American Locomotive Co. in 1901. |
| Plymouth Locomotive Works | 1960s? |
Fate-Root-Heath proprietors. Built industrial diesel locomotives, no cars. |
|
| Pollard & Gothe | ca. 1895 | ||
| Poole & Hunt | Woodberry (Baltimore), MD | 1843-1920? | Not a car-builder per se. Begun as a machine shop by Robert Poole, joined 1851 by German Hunt, became one of this country's largest machine-builders. Built some of Baltimore’s earliest horse-drawn streetcars. |
| Port Hope Car Works | Port Hope, ON | 18??-1878 | |
| Portec, Inc. (Division of Paragon) |
Novi, MI Winder, GA Clinton, IL |
1968-1984 | To Thrall Car? |
| Portland Co. | Portland, ME | 1848-1900? | Portland Co. is listed under “Car Builders” in 1877 edition, Poor’s Directory of Railway Officials. |
| Portland Co. | 1901-1912 | ||
| Porter, Bell & Co. | Pittsburgh, PA | 1872-1878 |
From Smith & Porter Built small industrial locomotives; no cars. Partnership of H.K. Porter and Arthur W. Bell ended when Bell died. Firm became H.K. Porter & Co. |
|
Porter, H.K., & Co. (H.K. Porter & Co.) |
Pittsburgh, PA | 1878-(1951)2005+ |
From Porter, Bell & Co. Produced literally thousands of small industrial locomotives, and a few full-sized ones; likely no cars. Incorporated 1899. Produced gasoline and diesel-powered locomotives as well. Acquired Mt. Vernon Car Co. in 1944. Unknown whether it built any additional cars under either name. Sold loco business 1950. H.K. Porter Company, Inc. is still in business, manufacturing all kinds of things other than locomotives. To Davenport Besler Corporation |
|
Portland Co., The (The Portland Co.) |
Portland, ME |
1846-(1894)2005+ (1860)1982+ |
Chartered 1846 by John A. Poor et al. Locos built 1848-1894 (and one 1906). Cars advertised 1879, but have no idea whether any ever built. General machine shop after 1906. |
| Portland Rwy. Light & Power Co. | Portland, OR | ||
| Port Oram Foundry Co. | Port Oram, NJ | 1868 | Locomotive Builder |
| Poughkeepsie Locomotive Engine Co. | Poughkeepsie, NY | 1836-c1839 | Built two locomotives; probably no cars. |
| Pre-Payment Car Sales Co. | Offices in NYC ca. 1930 | 1930 | Likely was a dealer or broker rather than a builder. |
| Pressed Steel Car Co. | Joliet, IL Pittsburgh and McKees Rocks, PA Had offices in NYC ca. 1930 |
1899-1954 |
From Fox Pressed Steel Equipment Company (Joliet) and Schoen Pressed Steel
Company (Pittsburgh). Listed under "Car Builders" in White-Orr's 1930 Classified Business Directory NYC section. To U.S. Industries, Inc. |
| Preston Car & Coach Co. | Preston, ON | 1908-1921/22 | To Canadian Brill Company, Ltd. |
|
Procor Limited [This is an off-site link.] |
Oakville, ON | 1962-2002 |
From Products Tank Line of Canada (and Sparling Tank Limited)? As of 2004, manages Canada's largest private rail car rental fleet; affiliated with Union Tank Car Company, which builds cars; both owned by the Marmon Group. Doubtful Procor ever built cars. |
| Products Tank Line of Canada | Oakville, ON | 1954-1962 | Renamed Procor Limited in 1962. |
| Prosser Twin Cylinder Car Co. | Chicago, IL | c1879/80 | Built a car that looked like two barrels with flanged wheels at each end of each barrel. The “barrels” contained the load and revolved with the wheels. Unknown whether it ever built more than the prototype “twin cylinder” car. |
| Public Service Railway of N.J. | Newark, NJ | -1930 | |
| Pullman-Bradley Car Corp. | Worchester, MA | 1933-1934 |
From Osgood Bradley Car Corporation, a subsidiary of Pullman, Inc. To Pullman Car & Manufacturing |
| Pullman Car & Mfg. Corp. | Pullman, IL | 1924-1934 |
From the Pullman Company. To Pullman-Standard Car Mfg. Company |
|
Pullman Co., The (The Pullman Co.) |
Pullman, IL Had offices in NYC ca. 1930 |
1899-1924 |
From Pullmans Palace Car Company. Listed under "Car Builders" in White-Orr's 1930 Classified Business Directory NYC section. To Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp. |
| Pullman Standard | Bessemer, AL | 1929-?? |
From Chickasaw Shipbuilding & Car Company.
Unknown whether this name moved together with that plant's buildings and
machinery. Built its 100,000th car in 1951, its 200,000th in 1970. In
1978 considered largest car plant in N. America. Became part of Trinity Industries c. 1984. |
| Pullman Standard Car Export Corp. | Middletown, PA | 1931- | Formerly Middletown Car Company. |
| Pullman Standard Car Mfg. Co. | Pullman, IL | 1929-1955+ | |
| Pullmans Palace Car Co. | Chicago, IL | 1867-1899 |
Pullman Palace Car Co. is listed under “Car Builders” in 1877 edition,
Poor’s Directory of Railway Officials. To The Pullman Company |
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