Fairmont Railway Motors
| Industry | rail transport |
|---|---|
| Successor | Harsco Track Technologies |
| Founded | 1909 in Fairmont, Minnesota , United States |
| Founder | Frank E. Wade |
| Defunct | 1979 |
| Products | railway speeders |
Fairmont MT-14 speeder in February 2004
In 1909 Frank E. Wade founded Fairmont Railway Motors of Fairmont, Minnesota (Fairmont Gas Engine and Railway Motor Car Company in 1915), was a manufacturer of rail vehicles formed from the Fairmont Machine Company.[1] In 1928 the company acquired Mudge and Company[1] and in 1955, the railcar interests of the Fairbanks-Morse company (which had purchased the Sheffield company in the 1920s).[2] Fairmont merged with Harsco Corporation in 1979 to become part of Harsco Track Technologies (Harsco Rail in 2009).[1] Fairmont products included:
- internal combustion engines such as the PHB and QB[3] models
- maintenance of way vehicles such as speeders, small derrick cars,
- small shipping vehicles such as combination platform cars, etc.
| Images | |
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 S-2 speeder in Texas | |
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platform car at the Denver Federal Center museum | |
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image of plant buildings | |
| Video | |
 Wooden motorcar with 2-stroke engine |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fairmont's Industrial Revolution (Report). Fairmont city website. n.d. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
- ↑ "About NARCOA: Faribanks-Morse". NARCOA.
- ↑ "Fairmont Railway Engine Questions" (bulletin board posting). SmokStak.com. 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2011-12-01.