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