Railway Car Builders of North America

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Company Plant Location Date Successor, Comments or Cross-reference
VanCleve, McKean, Dripps & Co.     Trenton Locomotive & Machine Works
Vancouver Iron & Engineering   1964-1966  
Vandalia Car Building Co. Vandalia, IL    
Vanderbilt   1902  
Venice Transportation Co.   1904  
Versare Car Corp. Watervliet (Albany), NY 1925-1928 To Cincinnati Car Corporation
Vimotum Hydrocarbon Car Co. Chicago, IL c1899 Tested gasoline powered 41' interurban car with 3-cylinder Wolverine engine driving one truck through a variable-speed pulley.  Company soon folded. Car was built by Jewett Car Company.
Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. Birmingham, AL
Memphis, TN
Roanoke, VA
c1917?-1920s  
Virginia Iron & Bridge Roanoke, VA 1916-1952  
Virginia Iron Works     Thomas W. Godwin & Company
Virginia Locomotive & Car Works     Smith & Perkins
Vulcan Iron Works San Francisco, CA 1862--
--1869?
--1871?
 
Vulcan Iron Works (?) Wilkes-Barre, PA c1945  
Vulcan Mfg. Works Portland, OR ca. 1889  
Vulcan Works Manchester, NH   D/B/A of Bailey, Blood & Company, predecessor of Manchester Locomotive Works
Vulcan Works Baltimore, MD   Murray & Hazelhurst
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