Gilbert Car Company
Diagram of NSWGR Sleeping Car 8, built in 1880 by Gilbert Bush & Co.
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
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mid-Continent Railway Museum. North Freedom, WI. "Gilbert, Bush & Company." Builders of Wooden Railway Cars. Accessed 2011-01-18.