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Where was I?...A girl in a car?..two girls in a car at a red light? I saw a Superliner in W.V. I saw a girl in a car, at a red light. A bunch of Clines. A girl in a van at a red light. A load of coils. A red truck. A girl with torn jeans in a car at a red light. B-model in McKees Rocks. Been sitting there a long, long time. A load of skidded coils.

Please send more pics.....thanks Y'all are gonna make me use up all my likes on the first topic i'm reading when I got home!..that's just funny right there!

Separate trip, we rode down there Wednesday or Thursday. And it was nice meeting you too, and the other guys as well!

Absolutely- and if anyone was to read any biography of Robert E. Lee they would know that by everbody that knew him's account was that he was a fine, upstanding individual, kind and generous to others, against slavery, even picked by Abraham Lincoln himself to lead the Union- yes, the UNION army- but he turned it down because he felt his first loyalty was to Virginia. And now some want to remove his statues, like he never even existed...

Wow... ...and all I do is photochop wimmens with big tits into pictures- but there's a place for everything I guess.

I know exactly what you're saying, me too!..but i'm just an old white guy, uneducated, non-union, living in the past- gotta go check on the slaves now, later!

Looks like an old Schneider cabover IH in there too. Great pictures Vlad, thank you.

And another thing, some people- "some people" being those seeking reparation for slavery- don't seem to get that nobody now alive ever had slaves, just as nobody now alive ever was a slave. But none of that seems to matter, "just gimme my money!"

I missed that part about denying anything, i'd better go back and re-read everything.

But it's way cheaper when it turns green!

Thanks Dave, we'll be back.

It's a pulling tractor, I don't know what engine, I didn't really look at it that close.

Ah-hah!..finished uploading- https://www.flickr.com/photos/28526133@N04/albums/72157685310043326

Wow, time to change the subject- i'm on vacation, but headquarters just called and said they have a load of pipes at the yard loaded on my trailer that they want me to have someplace in Pa. Monday morning. So even though it's Friday, I guess vacation is over. Speaking of pictures, i'm putting a few pictures on flickr that I took at the Keystone Museum yesterday. It's taking a long time because I didn't edit many of them, meaning resizing and cropping. I edited over 300 pictures that I took at Macungie, and it didn't take as long to put them on flickr as these hunnert and some I took yesterday are taking. For example- this tractor is this big at first, I cropped everything but this small part just to show the size. And this is not the same camera I used in Macungie, it would be even bigger if i'd used that camera- and much clearer. So I have to reduce the size so I can work with it, and it won't take so long to post to BMT, Facebook, or Flickr. Then I want to crop all the unwanted stuff and leave a nice clean picture that's a manageable size- like this. Same with Dave's camper that was sitting out back- this big. Smaller- cropped- And I did that to over 300 pictures, so it takes a while.

It occurred to me that I could put these pictures on flickr too, so I am. I'll post a link as soon as they're done- it's taking a long time, because I didn't resize and crop many of them.

You are right about that, I think they have at least one of every kind of tractor ever made, and- I'd never seen a White 5000 until yesterday. Or a Ford chain saw. An Indiana truck...unless P.L. had one, I don't remember. A Hug Roadbuilder...and more, way too much to list. Jo likes all the antiques and memorabilia all the way around the perimeter more than the vehicles.

They're running out of room inside the building. These are probably sitting outside waiting for a little restoration work, or maybe just a touch-up, but the ones that are inside are pretty much packed in there like sardines already.

I remember seeing that truck around Appomattox.

I went to the Keystone Truck and Tractor Museum today. I walked out back to look at a C model I saw out there, and it looked very familiar...thought i'd seen it somewhere before, but I couldn't place it- then it hit me! It's the one that's in the "Mack-Driven for a Century" book. I compared the pictures when I got home....and yep, that's the one all right!

The story behind the hat is that Old Bill, "The Diesel Gypsy", asked me to wear it, so I did. I'll try to make a long story short- He told me several years ago that he had the hat, somebody in Australia had sent it to him. He was preparing to move from Elliot Lake to Blind River because his wife had been accepted into a nursing home there, after being on a waiting list to get in for several years. He was "downsizing" in preparation for the move and getting rid of some things. I hated that he said he threw many boxes of pictures in a dumpster- I would have loved to go through those! So anyway, he told me he was going to send me the hat, but only if it fit me. He asked me what size hat I wore, and I didn't even know- caps are pretty much "one size fits all" you know. But I assured him that it would fit, so he sent it. This was only the second time i've worn it, the first time being at the Winchester, Va. ATHS Show a few years ago. I talked to him on the phone a few weeks ago and when I told him I was thinking about going to Macungie he said to "wear the hat, and take some pictures". So I did. It's a really nice hat too, an Akumbra, made in Australia, got a little bulldog on it and a gold "Mack" emblem. I never wear it, just keep it in my truck memorabilia cabinet.