1897 HARRIS CORLISS A 30 YEAR QUEST COMES TO AN END!
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Published 2024-05-12
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A big THANK YOU Jonathan for helping preserve our North Carolina history!!!
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Trying to put this all into time perspective. My grandfather was eight years old when this engine was manufactured. You are significant impact on the preservation of American history. Consider every person that has been part of the creation of this engine and now to its preservation. It is an epic story.
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Hey Buddy! There is 4 engines here. I live right near the engines, and was wanting to get them too. Get them back to running. I would love to help you. I live right down the road, and grew up around them
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Small world, I pass by that engine every weekend. Drove by yesterday and saw it getting removed and was curious about what was being done with it.
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Wow I was reading the history of this engine and Williams Lumber Company was owned and operated by my uncles. This blew my mind. Thank you for including the history of this historic engine. This is priceless.
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Your a treasure to the steaming community Jonathan .😊
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After all these years ,getting this thing apart is amazing .
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Incredible story! I'm very glad that engine is being restored. Thank you for helping bring this project to being! In Kansas, we never get to see these old engines, there just weren't so many factories here that used them. We have steam tractors. I'm always amazed at just how powerful and dependable steam engines are built.
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Glad this is being saved and restored to operate. Such interesting history.
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The replacement engine and foundation turned out nice! Glad to see the engine going back to where it was originally!!
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Thanks Jonathan. My Dad met Marsh Williams just before he passed away in the early 70s at Dorothea Dix when he was visiting a patient there. My Dad had an idea for caseless ammunition and asked Mr. Williams what he thought. He told my Dad it wouldn't work.
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great video. i appreciate you volunteering to help restore this steam engine history
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Another amazing job by Jonathan. Saving history
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Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I'm always interested in learning about steam engines, gas and diesel engines, hot rods and motorcycles. Y'all worked hard to do this and I'm truly appreciative.
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That replacement engine is a beauty
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Thanks Johnathan for restoring these fascinating steam engines and the wonderful history of the Williams family. Blessings to you always 🙏😊
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This is an impressive piece of machinery, and it'll be great to see it running again.
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I well remember the Jimmy Stewart movie about Carbine Williams, especially the scene in the prison yard where he test-fires his prototype carbine. The gun used in the movie was actually a much-modified Remington Model 8, designed by John M Browning in 1900, and released to the public in 1906. It was produced both in America, and in Belgium by Fabrique National. I have a Remington Model 8, built in 1915, and think of that movie every time I pick it up.
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Real good of you to help swap engines and help with the conservation of and putting an original engine back where it was used and belongs. I vaguely remember on a trip to Roanoke in the late1960s seeing a steam engine in a field beside a roadway.
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Now that is what I'd call , a heck of a Homecoming ! You did a fine job there , Jonathan ! Your usual , & as always , impressive . Funny how things work out in life . That static display looks fantastic ! Hard to believe those cinder blocks held all of that weight , sideways . Great save , too . I'll definitely have to read that story . Sure is a happy ending ! Happy Mother's day to the Mrs. J.W. God Bless , you & yours !
