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41chevy

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  1. Kovalchick's than and now builds their own trailer units specific to railroad rails, cars and power units. They are one of the biggest train - railroad scrap and salvage companies around.
  2. Here is the deal on McHughs #4 unit. Mack Truck Inc. between 1905 and 1939 built 21 locomotives and sold 19 of them. The Mack Company produced 19 locomotives that where all direct gear driven units except for two boxcab’s #4 & #5. During 1939 boxcab’s #4 & #5 were retrofitted at the Mack Truck factory with two six cylinder EP Mack gasoline engines. The engines were connected to two 1503 General Electric 300 volt generators that where wired in series to provide DC electric to power the 600 volt traction motors for travel. The #4 & #5 where never sold and they where used at the Allentown 5A & 5C plants. Mack #4 departed the company 5-C plant in 1967. Mack #4 preformed the last switching duties at the historic dual 3 foot narrow and standard gauge rail yards in Mount Union PA at the East Broad Top Railroad & Coal Co during November & December of 1969. Mack #4 was again moved to a heritage rail line in 1970 where it was briefly used. It ran until the mid 1970's. The unit was stripped of the engines, generators and trucks In late 2007 that both #4 & #5 were scheduled to see the flames of the scrapers torch by their former owner. However #4 was saved in March 2008 and the rare box cab locomotive has been restored (less power units and correct powered trucks) to its Mack Truck Inc. heritage. Mack #4 now proudly rests at the entrance of McHugh Locomotive & Equipment. The trucks are the none powered MACK units and the Engines, Generators and traction units are missing. I also think the first photo of Kovelchick moving it is miss I/D'd as Syosset and ins at Allentown or Kovelchicks yard in PA. Leaving Allentown 1967 When McHugh received it
  3. That CERRO Wire, they did High Voltage power transmission cables from the early 1920's until they were EPA'd off Long Island in the early 1980's.
  4. They used the AC "high hat" (aluminum head, hi compression) engine driving a generator that powered electric traction motors on one truck driving a center mounted gear. . I have some period MACK Plainfield N.J. production photos, I'll have to dig them out and scan them for you. Paul
  5. It was an article in the Bulldog magazine in 1955, showing a brand new B in Turkey.
  6. 1950 MACK Christmas post card, image from MACK Bulldog Magazine September 1925. Be a great BMT trip bus! Paul http://
  7. Know where or who may have all the Cowl Induction parts for it? or just an air cleaner assembly ?
  8. The spring packs pivot in a parallel arc on the trunion shaft, the rears are mounted on the ends of the springs in rubber or poly isolator blocks and have the ability to "twist" on the springs. Numbers 11,12,13 and 14 in schematic. http://
  9. 1955 Mack ad in Turkey. http://
  10. Here is a 1967 photo taken in Syosset NY on Robins Lane at what is now exit 43A on the L.I.E. MACK Plant in Pa. when it was sold to Kovalckick Rail Road Salvage company. Second photo is Mc Hughs. The one on top may be pre resto? http:// http://
  11. Get better soon Mike!!
  12. Easiest way is to send the VIN to the MACK Museum with a few bucks and request the build sheet. It will take a bit of time but you'll get the fulls specs on it. Paul
  13. Never went armed but always carried a few big cans of Black Flag Hornet and Wasp Spray. and Easy-Off Oven Cleaner. Bug juice was good for 20+ feet, can't easily wipe it off and will blind you, burn you lungs and give you a hell of a sore throat. 1 can will stop a half dozen "boyz". Oven cleaner was a "close in" tool, mostly lye based back than. Ain't no law against having it in the cab
  14. Speak inglash. . . me no kabish
  15. her mom
  16. Welcome! We just left NY Eastern Suffolk for Va.. Paul
  17. The Hunts Market approach at night was a gauntlet. The Crickets and Beans would push stripped cars in the street to slow or stop you. A half dozen would literally un load you as you drove. We would literally ram the junk out of the way and stop for nothing. The HPM and going into Alphabet City (plus into the South Bronx) were like a Mad Max movie Near the 59th Street Bridge in Manhattan at the Spanish produce market "El Guappo" watched a Ching a Ling (Puerto Rican Biker Gang) punch a hole in a vans gas tank for a couple of gallons of gas and let the other 10 or 15 gallons run down the street, . Those NY cut down bumpers weren't for beauty, they were done so as to not wrap into the steer.
  18. Mack 44,000lb "anti-sway" rear spring in lieu of the standard 38 rear spring and was designed for loggers and other high center of gravity applications. Anti Sway springs all have a slot in them. Supposed to stop or limit side to side movement between leaves. The torque rods are also bushed differently.
  19. I was in Vietnam for one Christmas and it was rough with out the electronic things we have now to shorten the distances. My pop was in Europe for 5 Christmas' can not imagine that easily. Paul
  20. FR797 E-9 they were an Australian production item. Page 2 of link. Copied from U.S. test mule? .
  21. Found the next pic of you all saying good bye. . .
  22. The whole design has to do with some of the bridge laws out west. They would count the bumper to back of a cab as a dimension that must be a certain length. The normal mount of the bumper on any Mack is usually mounted out from the grill. But for some reason the bumpers sticking out ahead of the grill was taken into the bridge law formula in some states. So the engine mounted inter cooler was designed. Paul
  23. Say a prayer for our troops in harms way, it is heard.
  24. 41chevy

    Loss

    So sorry for you and your wife's lss, you are all in my prayers. Paul
  25. FM-700T SBA
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