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Hang it up. If you expect to run it and generate revenue grossing 80,000 pounds all over the country then you will be dissatisfied and at a big disadvantage. A 2050 has a really big overdrive (0.6:1) and 5.02 rears would be typical of a "highway" specd truck of that vintage of Mack with that transmission. Assuming 11R22.5 drive tires that setup would get you about 72mph running on the 1800rpm governor. the slightest grade will have you dropping into 3rd gear and you will be getting your doors blown off by everything on the road. Times have changed. While certainly capable of reliably moving the weight, that power train is just not up to snuff for today's roads, weights, and everyone's impatience. It wouldn't be bad if maybe you never leave Nebraska. As for the camelback. My guess is most of the feed back on TheTruckersReport is from OTR guys who just like to complain about something. When hooked up to a fully loaded trailer you wont notice much difference in ride quality of air ride over the camelback. Even just pulling an empty trailer will smooth out the camelback's ride very nicely. Air ride has advantages such as the convenience it provides for drop and hook and probably lower maintenance costs. When the Camelback needs overhauled its a pretty big job. Nobody in their right mind would spec a brand new OTR tractor with camelback today but I wouldn't consider it a deal breaker on something used if everything else was ideal.

Obviously this is not a consumer product but my guess is Cummins will have a home run with this engine. On a much smaller scale, Kubota has been doing this for decades. They take an existing diesel engine and make a gas version. They are about the toughest and longest-lasting gas engines you’ll find in a small tractor or mower. Also a bit quieter than most other gassers being that they’re liquid-cooled and inline three cylinders.

In this day and age I would think its essentially impossible to start up a new automobile or commercial truck company from scratch and be competitive. Regardless of what former brand name you resurrect. It takes years if not decades to turn a profit from all the R&D, design, tooling, employees, etc, and investors want their money back quick. T-Line was somebody's pipe dream that had no basis in economic reality....

I sometimes think things like this are just an act in order to get views and clicks and go viral. Its not comprehendible that so many women can wake up, call themselves men and assume they can no longer get pregnant. Its just not believable... With social media everyone has a free broadcast platform where nothing is off the table. The more ridiculous the story or claim, the bigger the payday.

Send @chillywilly a PM. Sounds like he would be very interested.

Yea the entire Homestead Works is all commercial retail and restaurants in a fancy development called "The Waterfront". They left the 12 smokestacks intact as kind of an art exhibit or tribute to the former mill and history of the area, which is kind of neat. Picture below. The Homestead Grays (aka Highlevel) Bridge can be seen in the background of the photo as a horizontal white line. You can see the road the photo was taken from goes up a ramp to intersect with the bridge. The Homestead works was famous for the Homestead Strike in 1892. I think it is probably one of the most famous labor strikes in US History. Several people were killed when management sent in strike breakers and a battle broke out. At the time it was owned by Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel, which eventually became US Steel. The Rivers of Steel Carie Furnace museum is on the opposite side of the river from the Homestead Works was and like in the case of J&L's Hot Metal Bridge, the molten iron was transported across the river via their own rail bridge to be made into steel. Did you ever load at US Steel Edgar Thompson, Irvin Works, or Duquesne Works? Like the Homestead Works, the Duquesne Works is long gone but ET and Irvin Works are still going good. You probably never loaded at ET as they make huge steel slabs or ingots from raw materials. I think they get transported by rail to Irvin to be reheated and rolled into coils or whatever else. My father-in-law worked his entire career at Edgar Thompson Works as a boilermaker and fabricator. From what he says he hated it. The heat was unbearable as he got older and the working conditions were terrible.

If I'm not mistaken the president of FASH was a local guy here in Pittsburgh by the name of Bill Hill. He got involved in government via then PA Governor Milton Schapp, who supposedly had a soft spot for truckers and the trucking industry. His obituary claims he was the one who got the 80,000 pound weight limit passed though congress. William J Hill Sr | Obituary | Devlin Funeral Home

OK you seem to be the guy to ask since you got/get to put your hands on all the new trucks as they are coming off the assembly line. I have wondered about this question for a long time now: Can you still get a Mack built today with spoke hubs? Have you seen one recently ordered and built with them? Thanks.

I guess while we're at it National Pike Steam, Gas, & Horse Association in Brownsville, PA is another one to see. Mostly antique vintage earthmoving equipment.

If you have interest in the Tod Engine then you also need to check out the Coolspring Power Museum. Their site and museum grounds are insane. They have a couple shows per year where most of them run. Their hallmark is a 600hp at 100rpm Snow engine that formerly ran a NG compressor station. The site is not far from Pittsburgh in rural Coolspring, PA. Coolspring Power Museum

Nice. If you are ever in the area I highly recommend you visit the Rivers of Steel, Carrie Furnace museum in Pittsburgh. I would highly recommend the Industrial Tour. It is a preserved blast furnace from the US Steel Homestead Works. Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark — Rivers of Steel

J&L's Aliquippa Works before and after. The before was about 1970 and an aerial photograph. The after is present day from Google Street view so the perspectives are slightly different but the high tension, high voltage, 4 legged power pole at the bottom center of the before photo, standing just behind the general office building is the same one pictured in the current photo in the middle of the frame. All the houses pictured at the top of the before photo are the village of West Aliquippa, and are out of frame in the current view just behind the trees seen in the distance behind the white factory building. That factory is a US Gypsum plant that makes drywall board. I think at its peak around 8,000 people worked there. Aliquippa, about 20 miles downriver of Pittsburgh, used to be a thriving, nice place to live. Now it is a literal slum. Honestly the entire town needs demolished. Very sad.

If I'm not mistaken YS&T was purchased by J&L. But that was after Black Monday and at that point J&L was already owned by LTV and a shell of its former self. J&L isn't as well known as say US Steel, but it was an absolute monster in the day and certainly was the most able bodied competition to US Steel in Pittsburgh. Below is a before and after of their blast furnaces of the Pittsburgh Works along 2nd Avenue with the downtown skyscrapers in the background. The before picture was taken probably in the 1950s because the US Steel Tower is not visible in the downtown skyline. It was completed in 1970. The after picture s from a slightly different angle but as it is today. Nothing but office buildings, "mixed use space" and parking garages. The Hot Metal Bridge can be seen in the after picture. Back in the day 1,000 tons a day of molten iron went across that bridge in ladle cars to the South Side Works on the opposite river bank to be converted into steel in open hearth furnaces. During WWII something like 20% of America's steel making capacity rolled across that bridge in the form of molten iron. Now it is only used for bicycles and pedestrian traffic as part of the Great Allegheny Passage rail trail. The third picture shows what the Hot Metal Bridge looks like now with the city downtown off in the distance. In some ways its very sad what happened here to all the mills but on the other hand Pittsburgh reinvented itself and actually a very beautiful and prosperous city now. It is a distinct exception to the typical rust belt city. It is very clean and the air isn't toxic anymore. Back in the day of the before photo no matter what time of day it was it appeared as if it was dusk outside due to pollution. If you wore white clothing outdoors for any length of time it would turn gray. I don't know. I guess there is good and bad to both scenarios.