page_title: Standard Steel Car Company
section_title: Acquisitions
hierarchical_section_title: Standard Steel Car Company / Acquisitions
caption_attribution_description: Photo postcard of the Keith Car Manufacturing Company in Sagamore, Massachusetts. The company produced railroad cars.
context_page_description: The Standard Steel Car Company was a manufacturer of railroad rolling stock in the United States that existed between 1902 and 1934.
  Established in 1902 in Butler, Pennsylvania by John M. Hansen and "Diamond Jim" Brady, the company quickly became one of the largest builders of steel cars in the United States. Pullman, Inc. purchased control of SSC in 1929 and merged it with Pullman Car & Manufacturing in 1934 to form Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company.
context_section_description: SSC gained control of a number of other car builders during its existence.
  Middletown Car Works (Middletown, Pennsylvania) by 1909
  South Baltimore Car & Foundry (Baltimore, Maryland) by 1910
  Keith Car & Manufacturing Company (Sagamore, Massachusetts) by 1912
  Osgood Bradley Car Company (Worcester, Massachusetts) by 1913
  Illinois Car & Manufacturing (Chicago Heights and Hammond, Indiana) by 1928
  Richmond Car Works (Richmond, Virginia) by 1928
  Siems-Stembel Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) by 1928
  Canton Car Company (Canton, Ohio) by 1934
caption: Keith Car Company.
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