Fairmont Railway Motors
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.
| External media | |
|---|---|
| Images | |
 S-2 speeder in Texas | |
| platform car at the Denver Federal Center museum | |
| image of plant buildings | |
| Video | |
 Wooden motorcar with 2-stroke engine |
References
- ^ a b c Fairmont's Industrial Revolution (PDF) (Report). Fairmont city website. undated. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
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- ^ "Fairmont Railway Engine Questions" (bulletin board posting). SmokStak.com. 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2011-12-01.