smaller companies 1899: ACF acquires Bloomsburg Car Manufacturing Company 1901: ACF acquires Jackson and Sharp Company and Common Sense Bolster Company 1904: ACF builds the first all-steel passenger car in the world for the Interborough Rapid Transit 1904: ACF acquires Southern Car and Foundry of Memphis, Tennessee 1905: ACF acquires Indianapolis Car and Foundry and Indianapolis Car Company 1922: ACF diversifies into the automotive industry with the acquisition of Carter Carburetor Corporation March 31, 1924: ACF acquires Pacific Car and Foundry from William Pigott October 31, 1925: ACF forms "American Car and Foundry Securities Corporation" (A wholly owned subsidiary holding company) for the purpose of acquiring Fageol Motors Company of Ohio and Hall-Scott Motor Car Company Fageol Motors Company of California was included but was not approved by the shareholders. 1926: ACF acquires J. G. Brill Company 1926: ACF acquires American Motor Body Corporation 1927: ACF acquires Shippers Car Line 1934: Paul Pigott reinstates a controlling interest of Pacific Car and Foundry 1935: ACF builds lightweight Rebel streamline trains for the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad 1939: ACF's Berwick plant switches to construction of military tanks. 1940: Brill is fully merged into ACF. August 2, 1941: ACF's 1,000th military tank is completed for the United States military effort of World War II 1954: The company officially changes its name to ACF Industries, Incorporated. 1954: ACF purchases Engineering and Research Corporation. 1954–1955: ACF delivers 35 "Astra Dome" dome cars to the Union Pacific Railroad. January 1961: ACF delivers its last passenger car, (NYCT IRT R28. IRT car), Berwick plant closed, sold, to later re-open as Berwick Forge & Fabricating Corporation. 1977: Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) came up with the idea of the first double-stack intermodal car in 1977. SP then designed the first car with ACF Industries that same year. 1984: ACF is purchased by Carl Icahn. 1997: ACF reaches a leasing agreement with GE Capital Railcar for 35,000 of its 46,000 railcars, mostly on 16-year leases with optional purchase agreements. 2003: ACF Industries LLC became a successor to ACF Industries, Incorporated on May 1, 2003. Products In the past, ACF built passenger and freight cars, including covered hopper cars for hauling such cargo as corn and other grains. One of the largest customers was the Union Pacific Railroad, whose armour-yellow carbon-steel lightweight passenger rolling stock was mostly built by ACF. The famous dome-observation car "Native Son" was an ACF product.