GA_Dave

Who is this "we" you speak of? My eyes are wide open and I am quite pleased at the way things are going right now. Not everything is perfect, but I never had expectations of perfection. I certainly do not feel "doomed". It was like we were in a raging river, being swept closer to the plunging waterfall and we finally managed to get ourselves turned around, and now we are fighting against swift currents to get back to calm waters. It isn't easy, but we are heading in the correct direction. The stock market concerns me little, I have no dependency on it whatsoever. My current financial situation is better than it has ever been. I am not worried about the tariffs as I purchase very little that is not produced in the US. Life is good and getting better. The sky is not falling!

It is possible that they were simply left off the list, like 1218, or maybe they were not pumpers. They could have been aerials built on the B-85F chassis.

B-85F-1218 was a 1957 B-85F 750/500 delivered to Bethany, CT.

Happy Birthday!

He ran two races against women and won both. You would think the democrats would love him!

Any is too much. I don't need it to have any color. I drink it straight, like it comes out of the bottle and sometimes, straight out of the bottle!

I'd never ruin Yukon Jack with Coca-Cola!

Did we have the same Mother?

My solution is to NEVER go to NYC!

That wiki needs a bit more research. The L10 was not built in Jamestown, or it would have been a J10. It was built in nearby Lakewood, NY, hence the L. My BIL worked there for quite a few years. My career FD had two pumpers built on Ford LN-9000 chassis, both with L10 engines, one rated at 280 Hp., the other at 300 Hp. They wouldn't go fast if you drove them off a cliff!

You mean like yours?

I would like to lodge a formal complaint against kscarbel2. His posts outnumber my limit of likes

Happy Birthday!

It only works if you drink it straight!

Yukon Jack, known as"Cough Medicine" back in the day. I coughed a lot!

This is typical behavior for those unhappy with the elimination of DEI - take it to the extreme. The Tuskegee Airmen and the WASP's have nothing to do with DEI and these clowns know it!

We should give Petro a choice - either we land our planes there and unload them or we fly over and drop them off!

Of the five Torpedo's I posted, all but one are still owned by their original FD. While I am sure that repairs have always happened when needed, I don't think any of those four have been restored, but have been taken care of over the years. The exception is the CST from Elizabeth City, NC, which resides at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. In the teens and twenties, the Torpedo was a very popular commercial chassis and frequently used by American LaFrance. I don't have info on the total number produced, but the Ligonier rig was the 501st.

Engine 1, Mebane, NC 1923 Brockway Torpedo/American LaFrance 250/40 #B-190

Antique Ladder, Elizabeth City, NC 1917 Brockway Torpedo/ECFD 0/40 City Service Truck

Antique Engine, Ligonier, PA 1927 Brockway Torpedo/American LaFrance 300/100 #B-501

Yes, the Mack was shot on the same trip as the Brockway. The PBF had recently taken delivery of a large fleet of apparatus built by Pierce, all painted white/red. Most of the rest of the fleet was painted like the Mack. They called it black/gold. My understanding was that the black/gold was adopted to honor both Steelers and Pirates teams. Previous to that, most apparatus had been painted solid red. The Mack was not a foam pumper. The white Pierce Foam pumper was delivered in 1989 and I photographed it at the Pierce factory in Wisconsin.

Retired Engine 253, Clinton, MD 1947 Brockway/Oren 500/500 #964

1967 Brockway 358/Hahn 1000/1000, #H10-30, original to Wright Township, PA.