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Perley A. Thomas Car Works
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Perley A. Thomas Car Works· from 1917· rolling stock manufacturer
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. New Orleans streetcar stop: Vegasjon· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Muni 952 on Market Street, September 2010: besopha· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
Perley A. Thomas Car Works, Inc. was an American manufacturer of streetcars based in High Point, North Carolina. Following the liquidation of Southern Car Works, its engineer Perley A. Thomas in 1916 founded the new company named for himself.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 109 years ago, in 1917.
- Weighs about as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.3 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Still in service after 104 years.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1917
- in service from
- 1922
- status
- in service
- number built
- 173
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Perley A. Thomas Car Works
- designer
- Perley A. Thomas
- top speed
- —
- power
- 97 kW
- gauge
- 1,588 mm broad gauge
- electric system
- from overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- (1A)(A1)
- length
- 14.3 m
- weight
- 19.1 t
- capacity
- 52 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7169139, Wikipedia: Perley A. Thomas Car Works (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.