St. Louis Car Company

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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.

In the 1940s, St. Louis Car Company was one of the manufacturers of PCC streetcars, a design that was very popular at the time. The firm went on to build some of the vehicles used in the transit systems of New York City and Chicago, as well as the FM OP800 railcars manufactured exclusively for the Southern Railway in 1939.

In 1955, SLCC became a division of General Steel Industries and continued business until 1968 and finally ceased operations by 1973.

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SEPTA Silverliner III cars (1967)
NYCT R8A (1947)
CTA 6001-6720 elevated-subway cars (1950-59) - retired 1992
NYCT R17 (1955)
NYCT R21 (1956)
NYCT R22 (1957)
NYCT R27 (1960)
NYCT R29 (1962)
NYCT R30 (1960-62)
NYCT R33 (1962-63)
NYCT R33 WF (1963)
NYCT R36 (1964)
NYCT R36 WF (1964)
NYCT R38 (1966)
NYCT R40 (1968-69)
NYCT R40M (1969)
NYCT R42 (1969-70)
NYCT R44 (1972-73)
Metra Illinois Central Electric District Highliner electric MU cars (1971-72)
State of the Art Cars (SOAC) light rail demostrator (1974) - now at Seashore Trolley Museum
NJ Transit (NJ DOT/Penn Central) Arrow I electric MU cars (1968-69)
PATH PA1 (1965)
PATH PA2 (1967)