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02/25/2026

Lets not let politics get into this and just glory in the women's and men's USA hockey teams achievements! Bravo!

11/11/2025

Thank you to our Veterans, past and present. May our dedication to a more perfect Union be equal to the sacrifice you have given.

11/07/2025

There was a woman who stopped by the shop today with her friend, possibly her pastor, as she held what appeared to be a bible. She was memorializing her father who worked at Troy Boiler as a teenager, and on. They were in the parking lot. I talked with her because I was curious as to what she was doing. She mentioned her dad used to work here and talked fondly of it. We spent a few short minutes talking. I told her that I would email her some old pictures because I did not recognize her father's name, and maybe, she could pick her father out in them.
I went back to my truck, but could not find a pen, so I went back to my office to get some business cards with my email address on them. She may have thought she was doing something inappropriate and left with her friend despite me trying to flag them down. I feel terribly first for interrupting her honoring her father, and second, causing any misunderstanding that may have enabled her to get information about her dad. I'm posting this on the outside chance that she may see it and feel comfortable reaching back out (and possibly finding a picture of her dad).

10/08/2025

Welcome to Troy Boiler Work's newest member and a (not so fond) farewell to one of its oldest, lol. We recently purchased a Doringer Model 350 cold saw to replace a 14" abrasive saw that we were meaning to do for some time. Our shop foreman, MIke, saw it at a FABCON years ago, and was impressed by it. Gone are the fumes, the sparks, the sharp burrs on the work. Cold is cool!

09/11/2025

I remember that day, 24 years ago. I started the morning early and I was meeting with a salesman from Thompson and Johnson to go over a quote for a new fork truck.
He came in around 8:30. I had the radio on softly in the background. We shot the sh*t for a few minutes and got down to business.
Sometime after 8:46, we heard that an airplane (Flight 11) had hit the North Tower. At that time we did not think it odd. It was an accident after all, right? I'm sure that's what most people thought. We both continued our business while keeping a sharper ear on the radio.
Sometime after 9:03, a second airplane hit the South Tower. We both stopped talking, sitting, knowing, like everyone else listening, that neither "accident" was an accident, and that this was part of something bigger. At around 10 AM, the gentleman from Thompson and Johnson quietly excused himself to leave. We looked each other in the eye, each somber, shaking hands, sensing we were in the beginning of a tragic historical event. The rest of the day was lost in the collapse of the Two Towers, the crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon, the crash of Flight 93 after the hijackers were overpowered, and the announcements that sought to explain what had happened and what was evolving from those events.
A tragedy that united us as a people, as tragedy and need often do. The person who was me back then would not understand the division in our country today.

09/04/2025

08/29/2025

The heart of Troy Boiler Works is its people, always has been, always will be. Happy Labor Day to Troy's Employees, past and present. With thanks, the Okonski family. Enjoy your weekend!

07/21/2025

You can win a life time supply of boiler tube l**e if you can identify all of the faces in this picture (Lou, you can't play..)

07/10/2025

The finished product awaiting shipment

07/10/2025

Akash is "on the level" at this stage of the fabricating the water jacket assemblies

07/10/2025

Here's John doing great work on the water-jacket assemblies we are making for a customer