| 词条 | American Car and Foundry Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = ACF Industries LLC | owner = Carl Icahn | website = http://acfindustries.com/ }} American Car and Foundry (often abbreviated as ACF) 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, ACF is known as ACF Industries LLC and is based in St. Charles, Missouri.[1] It is owned by investor Carl Icahn. HistoryAmerican Car and Foundry was formed and incorporated in New Jersey in 1899 as the result of the merger of 13 smaller railroad car manufacturers. The company was made up of:
Later in 1899 ACF acquired Bloomsburg Car Manufacturing Company (of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania). Two years later, ACF acquired Jackson and Sharp Company (founded 1863 in Wilmington, Delaware), and the Common Sense Bolster Company (of Chicago, Illinois). The unified company made a great investment in the former Jackson & Woodin plant in Pennsylvania, spending about $3 million. It was at this plant that ACF built the first all-steel passenger car in the world in 1904. The car was built for the Interborough Rapid Transit system of New York City, the first of 300 such cars ordered by that system. 1904 and 1905 saw ACF build several motor cars and trailers for the London Underground.[3] In those two years, ACF also acquired Southern Car and Foundry (founded 1899 in Memphis, Tennessee), Indianapolis Car and Foundry and Indianapolis Car Company. During World War I ACF produced artillery gun mounts and ammunition, submarine chasers and other boats, railway cars, and other equipment to support the Allies.[3] ACF ranked 36th among United States corporations in the value of World War II production contracts.[4] Timeline
ProductsIn the past ACF built passenger and freight cars, including covered hopper cars for hauling such cargo as corn and other grains. One of the largest customers was the Union Pacific Railroad, whose armour-yellow carbon-steel lightweight passenger rolling stock was mostly built by ACF. The famous dome-observation car Native Son was an ACF product. Another important ACF railroad production were the passenger cars of the Missouri River "Eagle", a Missouri Pacific streamliner put on service on march 1940. This train, in its original shape, consisted of six cars including one baggage, one baggage-mail, two coaches one food and beverage car and finally the observation lounge-parlor car. All the passenger equipment was styled by industrial designer Raymond Loewy. Today the U.S. passenger car market is erratic in production and is mostly handled by specialty manufacturers and foreign corporations. Competitors Budd, Pullman-Standard, Rohr Industries, and the St. Louis Car Company have all either left the market or gone out of business. The manufacturing facility in Milton, Pennsylvania, is served by the Norfolk Southern Railway and is capable of manufacturing railcars and all related railcar components. The plant is capable of producing pressure vessels in sizes 18,000–61,000 gwc, including propane tanks, compressed gas storage, LPG storage, and all related components, including heads. The plant, covering 48 acres, provides 500,000 square feet of covered work area and seven miles of storage tracks. The Huntington, West Virginia, production site ceased production in late 2009. The site continues only as a repair facility.[1] See also
References1. ^1 ACF Industries, St. Charles, MO. "About ACF." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120117054853/http://www.acfindustries.com/acf_information.asp |date=2012-01-17 }} Accessed 2011-12-18. 2. ^{{White - American railroad freight car|page=142}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ACF Industries. "History." {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118171550/http://www.acfindustries.com/history.asp |date=2012-01-18 }} Accessed 2011-11-18. 4. ^Peck, Merton J. & Scherer, Frederic M. The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Economic Analysis (1962) Harvard Business School p.619 5. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=Saving Pilots and Planes Is Erco's Main Business: ACF Division Has 75 Pct. of Output In Simulators|date=26 August 1956|author=S Oliver Goodwin}} 6. ^"IRT SMEE delivery dates", R36 Preservation, Inc. http://www.coronayard.com/r36preservation/irtsmeedelivery.html 7. ^{{cite web| url=http://www.nycsubway.org/cars/r262829.html| title=R26/R28/R29| work=NYCSubway.org| year=2005| accessdate=2007-12-03| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071202191504/http://www.nycsubway.org/cars/r262829.html| archivedate= 2 December 2007 | deadurl= no}} 8. ^Chronological History - Union Pacific Railroad Company 9. ^Kaminski, Edward S. (1999). - American Car & Foundry Company: A Centennial History, 1899-1999. - Wilton, California: Signature Press. - {{ISBN|0963379100}} 10. ^"A new fleet shapes up. (High-Tech Railroading)". - Railway Age. - (c/o HighBeam Research). - September 1, 1990 11. ^Sources*{{citation|url = http://business.highbeam.com/435553/article-1G1-56505262/acf-leases-35500-railcars-rival-ge-capital-given-option|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160309080727/https://business.highbeam.com/435553/article-1G1-56505262/acf-leases-35500-railcars-rival-ge-capital-given-option|dead-url = yes|archive-date = 9 March 2016| title = ACF LEASES 35,500 RAILCARS TO RIVAL: GE CAPITAL IS GIVEN OPTION TO PURCHASE|journal = St. Louis Post-Dispatch | date =11 March 1997 | author = Christopher Carey| publisher =St. Louis Post-Dispatch, via business.highbeam.com}}*{{citation| url= http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ACF+Industries+Enters+Into+Railcar+Lease+With+GE+Capital+Railcar-a019188152| publisher = ACF Industries, Incorporated| title=ACF Industries Enters Into Railcar Lease With GE Capital Railcar | date = 10 March 1997| work = PRNewswire, via www.thefreelibrary.com }} External links{{commons category|American Car and Foundry Company}}
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