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The Southern Pacific claims to have built the first all steel American coach, in July of 1906 (no. 1806). The Pennsy, too, tried an experimental one, no. 1651, that same year. And in a 1944 article in Railway Mechanical Engineer, Southern coach no. 1364, built by Pressed Steel, also in 1906, was also claimed as the first (although in this case, the car was of composite construction - not sure exactly how, but that was