Barney and Smith Car Company

Barney and Smith Car Company was a railroad car manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio.

Founded in 1849 by Eliam Eliakim Barney and Ebenezer Thresher as Thresher, Packard & Company, it changed names as partners came and went:

1850: E. Thresher & Company 1854: Barney, Parker & Company - after Caleb Parker joined the firm 1867: The Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company - joined by E.E. Barney, Preserved Smith, J.D. Platt, E.J. Barney and A.E.E. Stevens 1892: The Barney & Smith Car Company

Barney & Smith faced challenges from bigger railcar makers in the late 1890s and early 1900s and went into receivership in 1913, when the Great Dayton Flood damaged its facilities; the company finally disappeared in 1921.

Products railway passenger cars electric street railways (trams or trolley cars) interurban railcars wooden cars for Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad in Chicago railroad chapel cars

Eliam Eliakim Barney His descendants include: granddaughters Natalie Clifford Barney and Laura Clifford Barney, and daughter-in-law Alice Pike Barney

See also List of rolling stock manufacturers

References

External links A History of the Barney & Smith Car Company Barney and Smith Company