So for those of you having trouble getting quarries working, I looked into it and the problem is that quarries require a lot of steam... Wooden "redstone" engines simply don't deliver enough power. You'll have to upgrade to at least a stone engine, which functions rather like a furnace.
I suppose if you really wanted to you could just string together, like, 20 wooden engines, but that would require spending more iron and would be really obnoxious to set up.