[?]What is an “Edison Car”?
Sounds to me like a coal gondola for one of the “Edison” power companies. Anybody got a picture?
What is the context in which you read (heard) the term?
It is said that Thomas Edison worked at selling newspapers in the baggage car of train when he was very young. Perhaps "Edison Car’ is slang for baggage car?
I have never heard of an Edison car, But the first thought that poped into my head was mabee it’s a Schenable car for big electrical transformers.
I think an “Edison car” was mentioned in the article referenced by Upchuck in his thread concerning things to do with box cars. It sounds like a passenger car of sorts, but I would reserve judgement because whoever wrote the article knew little about what he/she was talking about.
I’ve always been under the impression that an “Edison Car” was a type
of trolley,or street car.
In the early 1900’s the name Edison was almost synonymous with electricity,especially in the northeast.So I suspect it was an electric street or interurban car,or perhaps a line repair car.
The only thing that I remenber was a type of car that could run under dead overhead by using battry power.(Nickel/Iron)(Edison cell)
Weren’t there also Edison storage-battery cars that demonstrated on some roads before 1920? I seem to recall seeing pictures of one of these that had run on the CTH&S in the thesis papers at Rose-Hulman in Terre Haute 30+ years ago.
Whadya mean, you forgot to plug it in last night???[;)]
Yes, this is where I saw it referenced, and had never heard of it before.
Theres a recreation of Edisons early electric laboratory which was housed inside a baggage car at the Edison museum, but an “Edison Car” to me has always ment a refernce to early electric traction interurban cars which were powered by the Edison Electric motors and the Edison Electric Company.