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Passenger Car, Lightweight, Osgood Bradley

Vehicle - Rail - Passenger Car - Osgood Bradley
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NamePassenger Car, Lightweight, Osgood Bradley
RegionNorth America
CategoryRail
TypePassenger Car
SubTypeStreamlined/Lightweight
VarietyOsgood Bradley
ManufacturerOsgood Bradley (Details)
EraNA Era II: Late Steam (1901 - 1938)



History: In 1934 Pullman-Standard’s Osgood Bradley plant in Worcester, Massachusets began construction of one of the first true lightweight coaches for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. These cars were used on both long distance and local trains and served well into the 1970’s.

For clarity’s sake, let’s get the nomenclature right. Due to copyright issues, we’re not allowed to call these cars by their popular name. The popular name for the cars, named after an A.C. Gilbert S scale model in the 1940s, was coined by Arthur Dubin in his book More Classic Trains in 1974. In the interests of historical accuracy, let’s return these cars to their original name: they are Pullman-Standard’s lightweight Osgood Bradley coaches, or Osgood Bradley coaches for short.
Railroad/Company:
The company was founded in 1822 to manufacture stagecoaches and sleighs. The company's first railway passenger cars were built for the Boston and Worcester Railroad in 1835. During the American Civil War, the company produced gun carriages for the Union Army. Osgood Bradley was purchased by the Pullman Company in 1930.

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Item created by: gdm on 2018-10-31 12:34:14. Last edited by gdm on 2023-01-16 17:31:56

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