York Car Works (Billmeyer & Smalls)

History

Notable Individuals

• William Hose

Born 20 August 1828, apprenticed to Horn & Mitchell as a carpenter for three years, then worked as a car builder for two years before receiving the position of foreman for Billmeyer & Smalls in 1851, which he held until 1881. Upon leaving B&S he purchased the Eden & Blouser sash and door factory.

Gibson, John, ed. History of York County Pennsylvania From the Earliest Time to the Present. Chicago: F.A. Battey Publishing Company: 1886 p26.

Purchasing Railroads

Freight Cars

• Denver & Rio Grande Railway

• Denver & Rio Grande Western Railway (secondhand)

• Rio Grande Southern (secondhand)

• Towle Brothers Lumber Company

• Utah Northern Railroad

• Ilwaco Railway & Navigation (secondhand)

• Nevada Central Railroad

• Eureka & Palisade Railroad

• Utah & Pleasant Valley Railroad

• Wasatch & Jordan Valley

• East Broad Top

• Baltimore & Delta

• Mass Central

• Lancaster Oxford & Southern Railroad

• Newport & Sherman Valley

• Tuscarora

• Bingham Canyon & Camp Floyd

• Mineral Range

• Longdale Iron Company

• Ohio & Toledo

• Iowa Eastern

• Peachbottom Railway

• Pittsburg & Castle Shannon

• Memphis & Raleigh

• New Castle Railroad & Coke Company

• Bell's Gap Railroad

• Troch del Este (Cuba)

• Costa Rica Railroad C.A. (Costa Rica)

• Horonai Railway (Japan)

• North and South Railroad of Georgia

• Plainsville & Youngstown

• Ripley Railroad

Passenger Cars

• Denver & Rio Grande Railway

• Eureka & Palisade Railroad

• Parker & Karns City

• Utah Northern Railroad