Barney and Smith Car Company was a railcar manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio

Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

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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

Great Dayton Flood

The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 flooded Dayton, Ohio, and the surrounding area with water from the Great Miami River, causing the greatest natural disaster in Ohio history...

 damaged its facilities; the company finally disappeared in 1921.

Products

• railway passenger cars
• electric street railways
• interurban railcars
• wooden cars for Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad
  Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad
  The Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad was the third elevated rapid transit line to be built in Chicago, Illinois and was the first of Chicago’s elevated lines to be electrically powered...
  
  in Chicago

External links

• A History of the Barney & Smith Car Company
• Barney and Smith Company