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This catalog features all types of railroad rolling stock - logging Trucks, Flat Cars, Box Cars, Passanger Cars, Refrigerator Cars, Camp Cars, Cabooses, Gondolas, Tankers, they seem to manufacturer a bit most types of railroad cars. About 90 pages in all, loaded with illustrations, specifications, company history and more.
Established in 1905, William Pigott, with several friends and family members, established the Seattle Car Manufacturing Company, with a capitalization of $10,000 (the equivalent of roughly $200,000 in today’s buying power). The new company took over the truck building business, inventory and machinery of Railway Steel. In June, a plant was opened at Humphrey (now Youngstown), west of Seattle, on land leased from another Pigott firm, the Seattle Steel Company. Seattle Car built only equipment for the logging industry, particularly log hauling railway cars. By 1906 it was producing 10 cars a day.
But capital was short, and in January 1906 it was increased ten-fold to $100,000. With the increase in business made possible by additional machinery and facilities, the company decided to expand from only logging equipment into building all sorts of wooden railway cars.
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