Annisquam Granite Company

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Press button above for a map of the Annisquam Granite Company shops, railroad properties, and quarries, ca. 1883. As written in the Company archives now in our possession; located in a warehouse in Antigua, BWI.

At the present time most of this is extinct, overgrown, paved over, filled with water, fenced off, taken for municipal property, buried under condo developments, or otherwise generally lost.

Click button above: A 6 year project started June, 2001. Our new RR Back Shops.

1st is a new pattern and wood shop with attached office. 2nd will be a rebuilding of the existing erection/machine shops and locomotive shed. 3rd will be new track laying.

Click button above. We bit the bullet and added this surprisingly good Chinese machine tool to our shop. some things we like, some things we didn't. Included is a rather complete lathe comparison table for the 7x, 8x, 9x Chinese lathes with the South Bend 9" and the Atlas/Craftsman 6" and 12" lathes for reference. Also some mods that we have done and intend to do.

Press button above. A ten year project started May, 2001. The rebuilding, repairing, replicating, reproducing, and reworking of old AG Shay No. 4, Virginia, as we imagine her to have been in her AG years.

Note: In 1890 Lima Machine Works could produce as many as 4 Shays per week (although that year's production was 62 units) and erected 2,761 Shays in the company's entire life span; unfortunately we will be taking a little longer to erect just one.

Mug up! Click the button for a "FREE" Annisquam Granite Company Railroad mug. Read the Product Review , including photo, from the prestigious FRR magazine.

These pages are under continuous construction, we intend to have much more information and pictures herein as projects progress. But you know how that goes...

Yell when you've had enough! Or at least tell us what you think, good or bad. We're doing this for everyone's enjoyment, so cut us a little slack. We have already heard the words "fool", "idiot", "charlatan", "dreamer", "liar", and others we can't print here, so don't bother to use them.

If you are so up-tight that you can't bear the thought of anyone doing something this foolish, click here.

Mail Address:		Annisquam Granite Company
		PO Box 7147
		Gloucester, MA 01930-5847 USA




Telephone:		(978) 281-5517
Fax:		978.281.3113
email:		shops(at)annisquamgranite.com
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