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Transportation Company - Fairbanks Morse - Railroad Equipment
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Company NameFairbanks Morse
Company Web SiteLink
CategoryRailroad Equipment
Year Founded1865
Final Year of Operation1958
TerminationMerged
CountryUnited States (Details)
Transportation Company - Fairbanks Morse - Railroad Equipment



Company History: Fairbanks Morse and Company was an American manufacturing company in the late 19th and early 20th century. Originally a weighing scale manufacturer, it later diversified into pumps, engines, windmills, coffee grinders, farm tractors, feed mills, locomotives and industrial supplies until it was merged in 1958. It used the trade name Fairbanks-Morse.
Fairbanks Morse and Company merged with Penn-Texas Corporation in 1958 to form Fairbanks Whitney Corporation. One of the successors of the original company is Fairbanks Morse Engine, a subsidiary of EnPro Industries, that continues to develop and sell opposed piston (OP) engine technology for marine applications.

Fairbanks Morse was the last builder to enter the diesel locomotive market in 1939 and the first to exit in 1958. While its opposed-piston engine design was not as successful in locomotive application as with marine ships its locomotives were nevertheless revolutionary for their time, so revolutionary that it would take twenty years after the builder’s exit from the market for railroads to become interested in similar models!

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Item created by: gdm on 2017-10-12 16:26:34. Last edited by Alain LM on 2018-07-08 03:24:19

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