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Interior view of
The Nomad, the Director's Car for the Rio Grand Western Railway.
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 (ACF). The St. Charles plant became the main passenger car works. With a failing market for steel passenger cars, ACF phased out the St. Charles operation in 1959.
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| Railroad car manufacturing predecessors of American Car and Foundry Company |
| 1899 merger: |
Buffalo · Ensign · Jackson & Woodin · Michigan-Peninsular · Minerva · Missouri · Murray Dougal · Niagara · Ohio Falls · St. Charles · Terre Haute · Union · Wells & French |
| Later acquisitions: |
Bloomsburg (1899) · Jackson & Sharp (1901) · Common Sense Bolster (1901) · Southern (1904) · ICF (1905) · Indianapolis (1905) · Pacific (1924) · Brill (1926) |
