Harsco Rail is positioned to develop and deliver new ideas for maintaining track structures around the world. We turn broad market insight into focused solutions. Its what we call Insight onsite™. We can provide ......Harsco Rail is positioned to develop and deliver new ideas for maintaining track structures around the world. We turn broad market insight into focused solutions. Its what we call Insight onsite™. We can provide engineering, sales, parts, service, and maintenance from six main locations in the United States, Canada, England, and Australia. Sales representatives are located in 11 North American cities. Export agents reside in 27 countries covering the globe. For ongoing support, 21 service locations are available. Our philosophy of applying world class technology to railway track maintenance design, manufacturing, and service has led to a global customer base of more than 125 railways throughout the world. Our success is due largely to our commitment to work as a partner with our customers in solving the unique challenges of maintaining railway track structures. We bring to each customer a unique blend of engineering leadership, international expeience, customized product development, extensive product selection, and expert service. We are a division of Harsco Corporation, a global leader in providing industrial services and engineered products to major industries throughout the world. Harscos financial and international strength directly supports our long-term commitment to the railway industry. Fairmont Railway Motors was founded in Fairmont, Minnesota in 1909. Originally a supplier of railway track motor cars, Fairmont became a pioneer in the development of mechanized track maintenance equipment and introduced hydraulic power to the difficult tasks of pulling and driving track spikes and replacing ties. In the 1940s Fairmont developed road/rail guide wheel attachments, and its HY-RAIL® guide wheel units revolutionized track inspection transportation. Fairmont was acquired by Harsco Corporation in 1979 and became a major supplier of tie replacement and spike driving equipment, rail grinders, and road/rail equipment. Tamper Corporation, originally founded in Canada in 1934, had been headquartered in West Columbia, South Carolina since 1966. Tampers strength was in a complete line of automated tamping equipment for lifting, leveling, lining, and tamping track. A pioneer in the development of high-speed, computer-controlled tamping equipment, Tamper became the leader in user-friendly leveling and lining software. Ballast undercutters and regulators, tie replacement equipment, track inspection and utility vehicles, as well as new track construction and track renewal trains, were a part of the Tamper equipment line. A Contract Services Unit handled maintenance-of-way projects on railways throughout the world. Electric Tamper and Equipment Company (Pandrol Jackson) was founded in 1922 by Corwill Jackson in Ludington, Michigan. The company manufactured electric vibratory hand tampers. Incorporated as Jackson Vibrators in 1937, the company later acquired the O.F. Jordan Company and became Jackson Jordan. The product line later expanded to include production and switch tampers as well as tie gang equipment. Pandrol International Ltd., a subsidiary of Charter plc., acquired Jackson Jordan in 1990, along with Speno Rail Services and Dapco, and formed the Track Maintenance Division. The division was known as Pandrol Jackson and was comprised of the main offices and manufacturing facility in Ludington, Michigan the grinder re-manufacturing and operations facility in Syracuse, New York and the rail flaw detection research and manufacturing facility in Danbury, Connecticut. The rail flaw detection division was sold to Sperry Rail Services in 2002. Today, Harsco Rail is the largest railroad maintenance equipment company in the western hemisphere and a single international source for over 130 types and models of railway track construction and maintenance machines, road/rail vehicles, and contract services.