James Crossan-Cobourg Car Works was an early streetcar builder and based in Cobourg, Ontario. Cobourg (2006 population 18210 is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located 110km east of Toronto.

Founded in 1866 or 1867 by James Crossen Jr. Year 1866 ( MDCCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting (1826-1890), the company supplied railcars to most of Canada's early railway companies. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page

The end of the company is unclear, either it failed in 1915 or was sold to Canadian Car and Foundry in 1910 or lost the business charter in 1926. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F also variously known as "Canadian Car & Foundry" or more familiarly as "Can Car" manufactured Buses Railroad Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It was clear the railcar business was risky with bigger players in the 20th Century.

The company built cars for the Toronto Railway Company (SE-ST-M) and Birney cars for rival and city owned Toronto Civic Railways. Toronto Civic Railways (TCR was an agency created and owned by the City of Toronto, Canada, to run streetcars in newly annexed areas of the city that the Railcars were bought by:

• Canadian Pacific Railway
• Intercolonial Railway
• Cobourg & Peterborough Railway Company
• Grand Trunk Railway

Products

• SE-ST-M streetcar
• Birney cars - Toronto Civic Railways
• four-wheeled ore cars
• passenger cars
• freight cars
• colonist cars
• private cars
• vestibule trains
• parlor cars

• sleeping cars

External links

• Crossen Car Manufacturing Company
• Cobourg History

The Canadian Pacific Railway ( The Intercolonial Railway of Canada ( IRC or ICR) also referred to as the Intercolonial Railway, was a historic Canadian railway that operated The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR was a railway system which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the American Toronto Civic Railways (TCR was an agency created and owned by the City of Toronto, Canada, to run streetcars in newly annexed areas of the city that the

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