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Rupert What I can tell you about the Pressed Steel Car Co. is that their home office was in Pittsburgh, Pa and they had plants in Chicago and Pittsburgh. In about 1950, they bought the Mt Vernon Car Co. in Mt Vernon, Illinois, closed their plants in Chicago and Pittsburgh and moved their main office to Chicago. Then in about 1954, they went bankrupt and went out of business. Some of the building at the Mt Vernon plant are being used today by National Railway Equipment Co as a locomotive rebuilding shop. This is the former Precision Engineering (later Precision National) plant. Mt Vernon Car Co is best known along with Warren Tank Car Co. for building the extra long flat cars used on circus trains. John From: Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz> To: CBQ List <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 2:24 PM Subject: [CBQ] Pressed Steel coach I've found a photo showing the interior of a
CB&Q coach in a 1900 Railway & Engineering Review article about
exhibits at the Paris Exposition of that year, together with interior photos of
three more cars of other roads. Whilst it did not specify Pressed Steel
Car Co. as the manufacturer, that was the only likely company mentioned in the
article and referred to five passenger cars that it was
displaying. Has anyone heard of this company supplying coaches to the Burlington? Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ __._,_.___
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