Osgood Bradley Car Company

During the American Civil War, the company produced gun carriages for the Union Army.

[1] The Worcester factory is popularly remembered as the manufacturer of the American Flyer streamlined passenger car during the 1930s.

Walter Dorwin Teague designed a rounded aircraft-style body for railway cars manufactured of Cor-Ten steel.

It was hoped these attractive lightweight cars might encourage public use of rail transportation while offering improved economy to the railway companies.

Thousands of these toys were produced from 1946 to 1958; and railfans used the name American Flyer to describe the streamlined cars made by Osgood Bradley.