The Duchossois Group

The business was founded in 1916 by A.J. Thrall and his brother-in-law as Thrall Car Manufacturing Company, a freight care component repair shop. The company evolved from repairing car components to repairing and leasing rail cars.

Richard L. (Dick) Duchossois married A.J. Thrall’s daughter Beverly. Under his leadership after his return from World War II, the business started building specialty cars and then commodity cars. The family has continued to re-engineer its Chicago-based enterprise to adapt to changing markets.

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