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.
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platform car at the Denver Federal Center museum
image of plant buildings
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Wooden motorcar with 2-stroke engine
Fairmont Railway Motors
Industryrail transport
SuccessorHarsco Track Technologies
Founded1909 (1909) in Fairmont, Minnesota, United States
FounderFrank E. Wade
Defunct1979 (1979)
Productsrailway speeders
Fairmont MT-14 speeder in February 2004

References
  1. Fairmont's Industrial Revolution (PDF) (Report). Fairmont city website. n.d. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
  2. "About NARCOA: Fairbanks-Morse". NARCOA.
  3. "Fairmont Railway Engine Questions" (bulletin board posting). SmokStak.com. 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2011-12-01.
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