Older Steam Era Car Pictures

Apr 15, 2004 2 Replies

For any of you guys into modeling the 1880's to the 1920's here is a link to a pictorial of Saint Charles Car Company rolling stock. It appears there were a great number of their products on the rails back then. There are lots of large very good quality photos of equipment from well known and obscure railroads that are excellent if you want to see detail. Freight cars, Passenger Cars with some floor plans, Caboose's, Industrial Railroad Equipment, Street Cars, Dummy's, Both Standard Gauge and Narrow Gauge, close ups of trucks, and interior shots. I found this site a few weeks back but did not realize there were more pictures than just the one page I came up with doing a search. I just went back to down load a few pictures and discovered there were a lot more. Bruce



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For what it's worth, St. Charles Car Co. was one of the 13 companies which merged in 1899 to form American Car and Foundry Company (now ACF Industries -

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