Corry Rail & Industrial Legacy Society
On Saturday the 9th of July we had a group of 13 Volunteers show up for the work session on Saturday as well as 4 visitors... then 7 of us came in on Sunday morning for a few hours. Our timbers did not arrive on time to work on the Engine frame Mock-up, but more …
Corry RAILS 2022 Open House Review: On Saturday, June 11th, we welcomed several hundred visitors to our Shop on Mead Avenue to check out what we are up to. Along with our own displays and the inaugural presentation of the operating Climax "A" Vertical twin engines we were joined by a dozen or more vendors …
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Report on last weekend's Work Session #2: 5/7/2022 Steve and Grady working on and welding arch-bars and number stamping the parts. More progress was made on the Trucks with Steve and Grady adding some material to areas of the Arch-Bars via weld build-up and then grinding, replacing some of the metal which has eroded over …
FIRST WORK SESSION OF 2022 Finally!!! the snow left us long enough for us to get in a very quickly prepared Work Session last weekend, April 23rd-24th.... but as I am writing this, snow is again falling... ever so lightly, but it is in the air... and the temps are back in the low 30's. …
NOVEMBER 2021 WORK SESSION - Finally Caught up on my Posts!!! After our return from a successful trip to Alaska where we were able to retrieve some more of the missing locomotive parts and receive the original Builder Plate donated by the Andersen Family along with working on research, photos and video for our Documentary.... …
In the area around Corry there are a large number of talented machinists and of them there are a few who have extensive knowledge in the workings of vintage steam and gas engines. One such man has been a volunteer helping us analyze the parts and pieces which have been disassembled for many years. Some …
This Summer is moving along way too fast for me. Everyone is busy with postponed activities from the "2020 Covid Year", so it is difficult scheduling some of our initial baby-steps in moving the A-313 Project forward... but, yet, some of those steps are beginning to take place. Over this last month, following our successful …
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 …