American Car and Foundry Company
ACF Industries, originally the American Car and Foundry Company, is an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. One of its subsidiaries was once (1925–54) a manufacturer of motor coaches and trolley coaches under the brand names of (first) ACF and (later) ACF-Brill. Today, the company is known as ACF Industries LLC and is based in St. Charles, Missouri. It is owned by investor Carl Icahn.
A 1907 postcard depicting the ACF plant in St. Charles, Missouri
A refrigerator car built by ACF in 1911
External-braced wooden boxcar built for sugar service in Cuba by ACF, c. 1922
ACF railcar M-300, built in 1935, on the California Western Railroad in 1970
The J. G. Brill Company manufactured streetcars, interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and railroad cars in the United States for nearly 90 years, hence the longest-lasting trolley and interurban manufacturer. At its height, Brill was the largest manufacturer of streetcars and interurban cars in the US and produced more streetcars, interurbans and gas-electric cars than any other manufacturer, building more than 45,000 streetcars alone.
Share certificate issued by the J. G. Brill Company, issued on April 11, 1921
A 1903 Brill-built streetcar on a heritage streetcar line in Sintra, Portugal in 2010
Preserved South Australian Railways narrow-bodied Brill Model 75 railcar no. 106 on the Pichi Richi Railway heritage line in 2006.
A Brill Bullet (right) passes a pair of "Strafford Cars" (left), Philadelphia, June 1968