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The Imprisoned Engine

By George F. Kempher

Courtesy of George F. Kempher, 110 Seventh Street, Emporium, Pennsylvania 15834

For 74 years this large engine, a 40 HP Climax engine built by the Erie Gas Engine Co. Erie Pa. has been held captive in the basement of a building formerly used as a feed mill, at that time a railroad siding ran close to the building and the engine was unloaded and placed on a native stone foundation. The building was then built over it, making it impossible to be removed with out destroying part of the building, which accounts for it still being in existence.

From what I could learn it has not been run since 1911 when the business changed hands and a hardware replaced the feed mill. The belt is still on the engine running to the line shaft, a large muffler pot at the back of the engine is complete with a 6 inch exhaust pipe through the wall to the outside. An old ...

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