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Photo ID: 214745

Locomotive: Carrizo Gorge Railway Fairmont Speeder	Location/Date of Photo: Redondo Loop Redondo, Baja California, Mexico February 04, 2006
Locomotive No./Train ID BC Grande Por Ti F-BC Inspection	Photographer: Charles Freericks Contact Charles Freericks + Add to Favorites

Remarks: This picture was taken from a rare passenger run over the "Tuajana e Tecate" sponsered by the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum. We are looking down from the top of the famous Redondo Loops at a chaperone speeder running in front of us on the bottom of the loop. My vantage point was a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western MU car (what we called wickerliners) from New Jersey, now a museum coach. I used to ride these MUs from Hoboken to South Orange NJ 23 years ago... weird to ride one now from Campo CA to Garcia, BC, Mexico.

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Photo ID: 214592

Locomotive: Fillmore & Western Fairmont Speeder	Location/Date of Photo: Fillmore Fillmore, California, USA March 25, 2007
Locomotive No./Train ID Unknown FWRY Speeder Ride	Photographer: Charles Freericks Contact Charles Freericks + Add to Favorites

Remarks: As part of Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society's Railfest 2007, the public enjoyed speeder rides on the Fillmore & Western between regular trains. A friend's reaction seeing this picture was, "Looks like the World's flattest roller coaster." The track is the Southern Pacific main line between San Francisco and Los Angeles, later the Santa Paula Branch, now Fillmore & Western's lightly used line for dinner trains and movie shoots. The "Section Cars" that made up the Speeder ride appear to be a variation of Fairmont Railway Motorcar S2s.

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Photo ID: 214493

Locomotive: Untitled Fairmont Speeder	Location/Date of Photo: Travel Town Los Angeles, California, USA November 18, 2007
Locomotive No./Train ID Unknown Unknown	Photographer: Charles Freericks Contact Charles Freericks + Add to Favorites

Remarks: Travel Town's collection includes this 1987 Fairmont Gang Speeder (probably a model A8). It was built by Fairmont Railway Motors, Inc. of Fairmont, MN and is powered by a 1974 Ford Pinto engine. This one worked for the US Navy. Gang cars moved track workers, tools, and often a trailer to the job site. As an aside, with that EMD dinky behind it, ths pic is an unintentional Ford versus Chevy moment.

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Photo ID: 158195

Locomotive: Clinchfield Railroad Fairmont Speeder	Location/Date of Photo: Speers Ferry Quarry Speers Ferry, Virginia, USA August, 1973
Locomotive No./Train ID Unknown Unknown	Photographer: Ron Flanary Contact Ron Flanary + Add to Favorites

Remarks: Clinchfield RR Fairmont track inspection car, on set out at the old Penn-Dixie quarry at Speers Ferry, Virginia.

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Photo ID: 82669

Locomotive: Unknown Fairmont Speeder	Location/Date of Photo: Plant Hatch Spur. Baxley, Georgia, USA October 17, 2004
Locomotive No./Train ID Unknown Unknown	Photographer: edaly76 Contact edaly76 + Add to Favorites

Remarks: Ultimate railfan vehicle. This was spotted right of HWY 341 just north of Baxley on the GA Power Plant Hatch Spur.

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Photo ID: 73740

Locomotive: Maine Department of Transportation, Mountain Division Fairmont Speeder	Location/Date of Photo: Main Street Steep Falls, Maine, USA July, 2004
Locomotive No./Train ID TC-64 Unknown	Photographer: MEC407 Contact MEC407 + Add to Favorites

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Photo ID: 73736

Locomotive: Maine Department of Transportation, Mountain Division Fairmont Speeder	Location/Date of Photo: Unknown Hiram, Maine, USA July, 2004
Locomotive No./Train ID BM 288 Unknown	Photographer: MEC407 Contact MEC407 + Add to Favorites

Remarks: Cutting weeds and clearing brush near the Saco River in Hiram, Maine

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