EBT Locomotive Roster
'The Fairbanks'

"Speeders" are small self-propelled rail cars, used by railroad employees to inspect or maintain the tracks. They replaced handcars and could hold four to eight persons.

This is one of two cars long stored in the Boiler Shop in Rockhill. For a time the car had donated its engine head to the Spider.

2006-2007 this car was disassembled and rebuilt by Courtney Brown who maintains the EBT restored speeders. The original Spider head was repaired and installed on that car and this car received its head back. It received a red coat of paint and went into speeder ride service. It has a single cylinder Fairmont engine and belt drive.

It was named "Fairbanks" by the speeder crew because it once had a Fairbanks engine. Unlike all other Fairmont powered cars at the EBT, which have their engine at one end of the car, this one has the engine at the middle. This may be because of where the previous Fairbanks engine was mounted. This car is one if the fastest speeders at the EBT. The car was quickly placed in service providing speeder rides. A spare MOW trailer was converted to run with this car as a passenger trailer, as there is no seating on the car as there is on the Spider and the Flying Devil.

This car has run very little if at all in the EBT Foundation Period, with the Flying Devil and the Spider providing most rides.