Corry Rail & Industrial Legacy Society
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 …
Continue reading "Made it to Seattle…the ocean leg is complete- Sept. 10"
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 …
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, …
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 …
Continue reading "Operation Successfully Completed….A-313 is on the way 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 …
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 …
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 …
Day No. 5 of Rescue 313 - This morning we started with a short briefing with the whole crew in our hotel room before heading downstairs for breakfast. Since Tom and I were unable to get through all of the off-site storage units yesterday where some of the parts have been stored, we again split …
Well, I am not sure that there are any brass tacks....Now that the full rescue team is on-site, the work of removing everything from the storage container where it had been placed following the death of Keith Christenson (who had begun restoration in 1980) has begun. I am sure that Carl W. will continue his …
Day No. 4, Rescue 313 - Today was a very fast paced day for Tom and me... there wasn't much to show with photographs, so none are included here. We started out by heading to several stores to pick up supplies... some Sterlite rubber totes, zip-lock bags, duct-tape, ...that kind of stuff. We were also …
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