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: 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.

Dayton Car Works in 1875
Coach GN 3261, built in 1906.
Grizzly Flats Railroad Coach #5, at the Southern California Railway Museum . This car was built in 1881 by the Barney & Smith Car Company for the Carson and Colorado Railroad .