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Fairmont MT-14 speeder in February 2004 In 1909 Frank E. Wade founded Fairmont Railway Motors of Fairmont, Minnesota (renamed the Fairmont Gas Engine and Railway Motor Car Company in 1915), was a manufacturer of rail vehicles formed from the Fairmont Machine Company. [ 1 ]
Speeder in use in Santa Cruz, California. A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or draisine) is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. [1]
Perhaps the company's best-known wartime product was "Galloping Gertie", a railroad motor car with a large target above it, used for gunnery practice. [4] [2] Larger railroad motor cars were the models 27A (10-man capacity), 27AW-F (10-man capacity), and 38B-F (14-man capacity). Adding side steps could double the number of men carried.
The Rio Grande Southern Railroad Derrick Car is a railroad derrick car which was produced in 1948 for the Rio Grande Southern Railroad.It is one of only three W60 Series A Derrick Cars narrow-gauge examples ever built by the Fairmont Railway Motors Inc., and it is the only one still extant. [2]
Fairmont Model M-19 series AA, Group 4, serial #217980. Originally sold to the Union Pacific Railroad and later sold to and used by the Colorado & Southern as a track inspection car. [5] Motor cars were used for track inspection and to transport workers. Built to the various needs of the railroads, Motor Cars varied in size and style.
Union Pacific Railroad #MT14444M: Fairmont Railway Motors Model M-14 Built 1977 (Onan 2 cyl. engine) Track-Work Incorporated (Ex-Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad) #RIMC 915: Fairmont Railway Motors Model S2E Built 1955 (Fairmont 1 cyl. engine) Gifford-Hill & Company #H109: handcar, Donated 1964
Rail grinding car RG24A1-1 Fairmont Rail: 1983 Presumed retired R79 Self-propelled rail changer C259 Plasser 1985 Retired R80 Hopper cars H280–H297 Maxson Corp 1983 In service: R81: 10 rider cars (passenger car conversions) Incorporated into R71 contract R82: 4 flat cars: Incorporated into R72 contract R83: 5 electric locomotives & passenger cars
Illinois Central Railroad – 1 car [16] Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad – 1 x 55-ft car, #5, built 1916) [23] Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad 1 car as a trial, returned to manufacturer [24] Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad – 2 cars; [16] [17] to Arizona Eastern; to Southern Pacific; Morgan's Lake Railroad – 2 cars; to Texas and New ...