Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company

[3] Willard W. Fairbanks was a machinist who had worked in Providence, Rhode Island building stationary and marine engines.

The engines of Taunton, and the other New England locomotive builders were considered obsolete compared to these larger establishments.

The company also ventured into steam-powered snow plows, and other items, but sales gradually declined during the last decade of the 19th century.

[9] In 1906 the site of the locomotive works was purchased by New England Cotton Yarns, a large conglomerate of textile mills, based in Boston.

[10] The site is now occupied by a shopping center, constructed in the 1970s as part of an urban redevelopment plan by the City of Taunton.