John
Thanks for the information about
Pressed Steel. Unfortunately, I hadn't discovered a new coach. Going
back over the photos of the coach interiors, I realised that they related to an
article about car lighting systems earlier in the magazine, even though
they were in the middle of the article about the Paris Exposition. Can't win
them all!
Regards
Rupert
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:01
PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Pressed Steel
coach
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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