For nearly 40 years a single shop in Corry, PA was busy day in and day out producing one of the most successful geared locomotives of all time, the Climax Locomotive.
This view shows the results of the skilled work performed in the Corry, PA shops of the Climax Locomotive Works. In this builder's portrait we see C/N 1451 built in 1917 for the Columbia & Nehalem River RR, a logging outfit in Oregon's Coast Range. Her rugged construction will enable her to pull thousands of loads of old growth logs out of the woods for decades to come.
Photo and text by Martin E. Hansen
Shared with permission
