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] 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