ISP Murray Corliss

05/21/2026

A big Thank You to Ken Gerdes of Techmar Grout. Ken donated a pallet of grout, release agent, and the use of a grout mixer to properly grout the base of the ISP Murray Corliss engine. Ken and his office of Techmar are from Burlington, IA where the Murray was originally built back in 1939.

04/22/2026

39 years. The First picture from April, 2026 in Belmond, IA. The second picture is from April, 1987 in Waukee, IA. It is too bad it had to be moved, but I am glad we are saving it.

04/21/2026

04/18/2026

The whistle at the Glenwood Murray Corliss site came down this week. It was fed with a 3" steam line! Can't wait to get the valve down, mounted on a pole, and try to generate enough steam to blow it.

04/05/2026

Pulled all the sheet metal covers, belt guards, and hand railings today off the Glenwood engine. Then tackled the exciter. It only weighed 2000 lbs.

03/27/2026

Work on the Glenwood Murray Cirliss continues. Keith Anderson and I removed the governor and decided to weigh it.
Guess what just the governor weighs.

01/26/2026

Work on the ISP Murray Corliss continues inside during the cold. Picked up a kiln to anneal and bake all the coils and windings. Each has to be stripped of tape, cleaned, annealed, varnished, insulated, and baked before reinstalling.

11/23/2025

Keith and Mike got all the coils pulled from the stator.

11/17/2025

We had some help Friday and Saturday working on the generator.