Joseph Cummings

Bob Forepaugh, his nephew George Frederick, and Danny Evans were taking down a batch plant in Telford for Jimmy. Bobby was running an old Bay City with a magnet on it loading scrap. Somehow he was moving the lower and the the boom hit a 7,200 volt PP&L line running along the property. Danny and Georgie were burning with torches and must have heard something. The lower cab was on fire and Bobby was laying on the ground. I don't think they had any idea what happened so they ran over to help him and one of them touched the outrigger box and they all got electrocuted. They burned on the ground for at least 1/2 hour before PP&L got the power shut off. It was really horrible. My mom called me on the phone and said something bad happened to Bobby Forpaugh and it was on the news (We were all close friends). I started calling on the Nextell and the only answer I got was Danny's uncle and he told me how bad it was. https://www.mcall.com/2003/08/22/3-electrocuted-when-crane-touches-telford-power-line-driver-68-is-thrown-by-the-shock-two-others-died-coming-to-his-aid/

Looks like the right rear too, needs a high input yoke to keep U joint angles sane because the driveshaft is so short

Yeah I think it is.

I'm not sure. Is Jimmy still alive? Bob Forepaugh used to have a pretty good relationship with him. He got lots of scrap from him. At least until the accident in Telford in 2003

You know this guy?

Reed & Hoopes had some neat stuff

,Here is a similar Philly area truck

Back when I was a kid in like 1980 the guy I worked for had a C-114 tractor 290 cummins, 15 speed deep reduction. It was early 70's so it wasn't that old, but it was all primer spots and had a hole in the left fender about the size of your fist. Nobody wanted to drive it. One older guy "Marvin" who occasionally suffered from something he called "wine cramps" used to drive it real local loading trailers and bringing them back to the yard. So one weekend, I fixed the hole in the fender, sanded and primed it, then wet sanded it, and shot it in Mack Standard Red with some of that Kirker paint that mack sold for like 25 bucks a gallon. I'm no great painter, but the stars must have aligned or something and it came out beautiful. Then everybody wanted it, but no way was Marvin giving it up. He called it "My Pretty Red Truck" and actually started washing it, waxing it, and polishing the chrome

I had a C-114 tandem dump in the 90's. I think it was like a 72 or 73. Set back axle. I liked it

Not sure who did the stampings and assembled the cabs. But yeah they were the Drivers cab. I swapped parts between them. Franklin Smelting had an A Car dump that I put 2 cabs on. I kinda think one came off of a white or reo

Nice set back axle Raider

I wonder who built the cabs. Diamond Reo first used that R series IHC cab, and then the white cab. They never made their own

Actually it was JDM. That was a division of James D Morrisey

Oh yeah, I forgot about that guy in between white and osterlund. I think he was from down south

Loyal Osterlund and Ray Houseal bought Diamond Reo. They built trucks in Harrisburg Pa actually for quite a while as "Giant Trucks". I remember in the 80's JD Morrisey bought some with air cooled Deutz engines

Nothing new. During the Weimar Republic they were celebrating this. And they had hyperinflation too. This lady is burning money to keep warm

Nice. I'd have it hung on the wall of my office