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Passed along the lake of Sevan. Looked at a very old Christian chirch built of stones.

Saw many old Soviet trucks working there. Same styles may be found in Russia too. But getting scarce nowadays.

Took my back way over Armenia from Iran. The road was 90% serpantine with many many really tight turns and steep elevations and declines. But very scenaric for the most of its part.

With the condition of tyres those trucks rode on they wouldn't pass roadworthy inspection in Russia too. But I guess if the frames and axles are Ok, lights operational and good wheels they would have chances to get allowed to works officially.

But would be interesting to learn of which rail heigth and thickness. All R600's (not RB, RD, RS, RL) had 9" high 1/4" thick channels. Could be a single frame or with 1/4" inserts. Later RD's (along with RB's) had 10-5/8"x5/16" rails in standard configuration (could have 1/4" inserts too) and 10-3/4"x3/8" optional rails. But I don't know what early year's RD had.

Catched whole two Jungee cement tank trucks at the last days of my travel in Iran. And saw a tractor with a cement semi-trailer which seemed as Hayward built RS600. But it was driving down the highway and I only passed over it than stopped on a shoulder and made a shot.

That's an interesting question I learned answers partially so far. Read somewhere, too possibly on BMT, that after the US put sanctions Canada hasn't done that for 8 or 10 more years. And that was the way. Than later Iranians bought plenty (the majority?) of used Macks in Europe. Mostly from Netherlands and also Germany, France, Belgium. Than also as it looked to me and some other persons Iranians scratched up all Macks from Turkey. That isn't known for sure yet but Turkishes had qute many Macks in 80's and early 90's and now (and 14 years ago when I cruised Turkey extensively) there were no Mack trucks overthere. So seems Iranians used multiple ways purchasing trucks and had some luck with that. Aside of these early 90's RD relatively many MH's can be see in the country and also a few CH's. I saw 3 or 4 but wasn't able to make a pic of. Also guys in the shop told me there were some with a V8 what means CL not CH.

Yes, all those were working trucks. Those parked in a raw were in a closed yard nearby a work shop. I asked to look over and was invited to but also took a tea and later shared a mill. As I figured some trucks were waiting repair and the rest were just not in work at the moment.

Would be cool to see pics. I have a kind of personal interest in lime green trucks, you probably know😀

The white stripes look pretty good indeed!

Looks very short for having a platform. But looks good as a tractor for sure. Also strange to see that fish plate reinforcement for that short (and light duty B42-?) chassis. Which actually more looks like a portion of a frame rail with top flange cut away than a factory fish plate. And the price (regarding TJC's comment) is not a price but a current bid. Which haven't met the reserve.

Great photo and great to see your happy faces guys! Hope the show was also great and can't wait for Zina from Florida (or Tom from Winfall) to post photo's of trucks. Also great to see Larry and Bob finally attending Macungie. My sorry I could not bring myself up there this time. Many of you know I would if I could.

Many thanks for sharing! Nice trucks and looks like a nice event overall.

Walked to Tabriz rail road station being interested to see what Iranians use for rail transportation. But couldn't go to the tracks since the station was organized the way it's done for airports. You're able to go to a train only when it's arrived. So only remarkable items were an old steam loc in a square nearby and a RD dump truck someone got parked in a few hundred meters further down the street.

A few more trucks I saw in Tabriz and its neighbourhoods. Some Kaveh R-models were made with hoods produced in Iran which had scripts Iran-Kaveh in place of Mack letters. Some dog mascots also looked made locally. Saw an old IH by ocassion.

You are welcome Brocky! That's really good you could attend both the shows. I kept in mind Macungie in this time frame but thought York would take place later. Recently I'm generally also off the site excepting this thread, just not able to pay attention to everything I would like to. Sorry to hear arthritis bothers you. Hope you can feel Ok splitting your activity and spend some time for relaxation.

From what I saw it also looked that way to me. From the underneath you could see a few very distinguishing parts if you know NR chassis well enough to relate to. Of remarkable points all NR's had riveted frames and these trucks have bolts. Also newer engines, something like END or ENDT-673 and newer 2 stick trannies (TRD-720?). And those industrial style radiators with shutters. You can see many photos of these trucks on the net and I could catch up a few (4 or 5 but mostly saw from a distance) and all were equipped generally similar. So I'm sure the engines, trannies, radiators and some other items were imported from the States in lots. Doesn't look like just single trucks rebuilt in a shop. This way my current guess is some facility in Iran renovated WW2 NR's using new components imported from the US and locally built cabs. And that was done in series.

Finally could see a so-called Mack Jungee (Mack War if translated verbatim) parked in the same street on the next day. Still can't figure out the matter of this model. Looks like some kind of a L-model assembled in Iran but more like WW2 time NR with different engine and a cab built locally. So far the 2nd option seems clother to the truth. Unfortunately I couldn't access the vin stamping on the frame since the wheel arch was too tight and too dirty.

Came to Tabriz the 2nd time and met a very nice B-model tractor parked in a street. Had a bit of talk with the driver. He said the truck was made in 1966 and has been mostly original. It had a single frame made of very thick metal which seemed in perfect condition. I could wipe dust off the VIN number and the truck was B-53 not B-61. While making photo's a F-model drove by so I could catch up two Macks in one pic.

Yup, the pics were made by myself. I sure had some doubts on the entertainment but mostly when I was already in elevator. It had one wall made of glass and you could see the higth through those windows in the side of the tower. But it was too late to get off😀 Also Iranians seemed producing good quality concrete to withstand earthshakes. And the tower was build just 10 or so years ago. So I hoped it's steady enough to not collapse when I was up there.

There must be steel dash in that F, right?

Looks very nice. Wonder what does B-42P mean? Was it not a tractor in its original configuration? I used to see T after the model for a tractor. But I'm not too familiar with B-models.

Saw a few Mack trucks down my ways. That poor blue single axle Kaveh R probably survived only because of the crane unit. I saw it parked in a small street in a small city I came into by mistake when was looking for a hotel.

Came to Tehran for one day. You definitely need much longer time to look well a capital of a country. But I was short on time and it started getting hot overall. So the initial idea was to not enter Tehran at all and keep it for future. On the other hand my way was right near the city so I figured I'd make some basic check out. Describing by words traffic jam was nasty and temp was hot in the afternoon. I could survive though. Found a hotel with a help of a honest local motorcyclist and cruised a bit of streets in the evening than. Visited a TV tower on the next day. It's quite high, nearly 500 meters. But built not long ago, just in the recent years. Honestly the look of the city impressed me. Last time I saw a similar scenary was from a plane when it was gliding above Long Island prepping to land in JFK.