Gilbert Car Company

Gilbert Car Company was a railroad car builder based in Troy, New York.^[1] It began manufacturing streetcars in the late 1880s.

Founded by Orsamus Eaton (1792-1872) and Uri Gilbert (1809-1888), the company changed names several times as the partnership changed:

1830 Eaton and Gilbert
1844 Eaton, Gilbert & Co
1862 Uri Gilbert and Son
1864 Gilbert, Bush & Company
1879 Gilbert & Bush Co
1882 Gilbert Car Manufacturing Co
1889 Taylor Electric Truck Company

Following the Panic of 1893, the company stopped building rail cars in 1895.^[1]

Products

freight cars
passenger cars
drawing room cars
sleepers
monitor roof or clerestory (“clear-story”) cars
horse cars
electric streetcars
railway equipment
railcar trucks
wooden cars for South Side Elevated Railroad and Lake Street Elevated Railroad (Chicago)

See also

List of rolling stock manufacturers

References

^ ^a ^b Mid-Continent Railway Museum. North Freedom, WI. "Gilbert, Bush & Company." Builders of Wooden Railway Cars. Accessed 2011-01-18.