Hi all.... the next to the last magic hour of Phase I has happened.... About 5:15 this afternoon A-313 entered Pennsylvania under the guidance of Howard Blystone, driver for Barnhart Transportation... There were some issues at the beginning... I was told that the Container was a "Standard" Container.... it is a "Hi-Cube" Container... so the trailer …
A-313 Rescue in the News
The Climax A-313 Rescue and Restoration by Corry RAILS (Railroad and Industrial Legacy Society) is in the news. You can read the article here: https://www.goerie.com/news/20200912/climax-steam-locomotive-is-on-its-way-home-to-corry?fbclid=IwAR2u_1gRXji5Y-sgMBvf469QEe-iNWe7ZhcIYquTzlj0YBp-3-PSv55Nswk
Back in Seattle…41 years later
A-313 is now off-loaded in Seattle... She was last in Seattle... ummmmm... Nov. 1979, almost 41 years ago. Here's how she looked back then... The A313 has spent a lot of its life waiting...and there will be a bit more waiting in Seattle. A truck from Barnhart Transportation (North East PA) will be picking up …
Made it to Seattle…the ocean leg is complete- Sept. 10
Just a quick note to the Team, the Board & misc Friends of Corry RAILS. As of 7pm eastern Thursday, Sept. 10th. the Barge Whittier Provider is off Port Townsend, Washington and Admiralty Bay heading for the entrance to Puget Sound... About 60 miles from docking, with Corry RAILS Climax A-313 aboard. She should dock …
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Rescue 313-Accounting for the Days
Update on Climax Rescue 3-1-3 We're HOOooooome!!!!A few days of rest and I am finally beginning to get back on a normal sleep cycle. For a couple of days I was waking up at 6:00am.... only problem was that it was Anchorage time.... half the day gone!!!! seesh!! What a trip, and what a great …
Back from Alaska…and waiting for the A-313….But not resting on our accomplishments.
It's good to be home.... but what an adventure we have had over the past eleven days... The Climax A-313 is now on the move heading home to Corry, PA where it will undergo restoration back to life over the next several years. Two of us, Tom VanTassel and myself, Carl Wassink, of Corry RAILS, …
Operation Successfully Completed….A-313 is on the way home!
It has been quiet FROM the Alaska A-313 mining field for a couple days- but it hasn't been quiet ON that field- The Team has been prospecting and gathering all of the pieces of gold that will become the A-313 Climax Engine refurbished in her home town. So, here are a few final thoughts from …
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Getting Ready to Come Home
Yesterday ...Monday- Day 8 Putting everything back in for the trip home. Carl and team members carefully load the boiler for the land and sea voyage back to its birthplace. Other carefully sorted and packed parts and pieces will follow. The weather may not be on their side as they accomplish the re-packing, but this …
Quick update-more later
It's drizzled & wet out here at the Pit this morning... arrived early (6:30) to set up with an equipment operator to swap the container to the delivery trailer... but he is held up in traffic at a multi vehicle accident. Once the transfer is complete we will reload the boiler and back the trailer …
Carl’s Saturday Report- Day 6
Day No. 6 of Rescue 313 - Saturday at the worksite near Palmer Alaska saw us moving parts around and filling in inventory sheets.... Grady and Steve were deep into the bowels of the container pulling out parts and pieces while Norm was helping sort parts into groups... We had several visitors show up to …
