Just In!!!! We have Christmas ornaments depicting the Climax A and B!They are available in Corry, PA at Hiram's Marketplace on Center Street, or at the RAILS Gear Store here .
Climax A and B Christmas Ornaments
Christmas Wishes
Best Christmas wishes to everyone who supports Corry RAILS and the ongoing work to revive the Climax A-313 Locomotive. We look forward to sharing our progress and invite all who are interested in Corry, PA history, railroad history, logging, model trains, steam engines, or just things that are happening in the area.
Check out the Video Updates
Workdays at the Restoration Building and trips to Alaska have kept progress moving along over the last few months. We have installed shelving, sorted parts, begun the process of refurbishing the engine and located parts that eluded us in the first trip to Alaska in 2020. Check out these video updates from Fall, 2021 Progress …
RAILS Gear Makes a Great Christmas Gift
Visit our online store or, in Corry, Hiram's Marketplace on Center Street for RAILS apparel and information.
May 15 Open House Event
We’ve Unloaded the Container
We are a few steps (and lifts) closer to the work of restoring the Climax A313 Locomotive. Since its return to Corry last fall, the A313 has been patiently resting in the container that brought it back from Alaska. Travel by ship and truck proved to have maintained the integrity of the many pieces and …
10-11-2020 The A313 is Almost Home!
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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