Hendricksons

[vision386]

I remember the second picture of the wrecker from Overdrive,"huffin' henry" stuck with me for some reason,i was an adult before I ever even saw a Hendrickson in person,rare on the East Coast.................................Mark

[57 bcr]

Here's a picture that should never have been taken.......I mean, we couldn't find a to do this job,that day? Blasphemy !! Anyway it is a Hendrickson hauling a so I felt it should be posted. Interesting haul, if anything I guess! I didn't find any switchers this size in my Montville book. Anybody know which model it is? Or was it simply something used by Mack at a plant (hence the Mack lettering). Somebody here will know the answer. Al

[yarnall]

Here's a picture that should never have been taken.......I mean, we couldn't find a to do this job,that day? Blasphemy !! Anyway it is a Hendrickson hauling a so I felt it should be posted. Interesting haul, if anything I guess! I didn't find any switchers this size in my Montville book. Anybody know which model it is? Or was it simply something used by Mack at a plant (hence the Mack lettering). Somebody here will know the answer. Al

Great picture. You must have missed this thread. http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/33657-mack-rail-the-locomotives/ It is a pretty good read. That is probably when they bought the locomotive and brought it home. Mike

[james j neiweem]

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[57 bcr]

Yeah,Mike,I did miss it! I'll go back in the archives, thanks!

[PeterMack]

At Christmas I was at my uncle's house and I borrowed a couple pics of his first trucks. The dark blue/white Hendrickson was

his first truck as an o/o and was Cummins powered and the light blue/white was his second truck that had a 318 Detroit. He still

had the book for the service manual for the first truck but all the literature was gone and it is now used as a photo album.

[57 bcr]

Here's another Hank.It was on with Quality Carriers.Notice the blue B Model on with BULK Transport. Q C,BULK,and BEAVER all were owned by the same outfit at the time.This is most likely at their yard in Bristol,Wis. which is still at Hwy C (Wilmot Rd.) and US Hwy 41 (I-94) and has been since I was hub high to a Budd wheel!

[james j neiweem]

BCR I remember tons of those Blue B models for quality carriers coming down from Wisconsin on rt 41 I used to sit on a hillside on rt 41 in gurnee Ill and watch the rigs of the 50's and 60's. Tons of B's and F's. white 9000's emmeryville and freightliner put puts. Glenndenning,Trans American Werner, QC, Olson and olson of greenbay,Spector, Roadway, Norwalk, Dundee, crystal Lake, Meyer, Celli, Bongi Strickland Gateway, LCL,OK, Central Wisconsin and about 100 others

CF

[57 bcr]

James, I only wish you had a camera back then! Thankfully,Bill Bedell, Ron Adams,Joe Wanchura,Stan Holtzman,Robert Ward,Neil Sherff,David Bontrager and many others did! But you do have an awesome memory! Thanks for sharing! Al

[RFCDrum]

Big Henry at the ATHS convention in Buffalo.

Rob

[57 bcr]

I guess they still use "Big Henry" at times. Be tough and expensive to replace something of that size,for sure!

[57 bcr]

In the March/April 2014 issue of "Wheels of Time" the book review is on one celebrating 100 years of HENDRICKSON. Looks like a good read. I'll have to get one for my library as they were a common sight around here, up until a few years ago.

[james j neiweem]

I picked one up at tractor supply a couple of months ago. I am sure the ATHS site has some.

[PeterMack]

Saw this Hendrickson six wheeler the other day getting a load of asphalt. I have seen it around for years but this is the first

pic I got of it. Truck looks to be in decent shape.

[Firefightingboomer123]

I've seen that Hendrickson hauling out of K Five on Rt.83 in Elmhurst, last year. This guy makes the rounds!!!!!

[41chevy]

Here's a picture that should never have been taken.......I mean, we couldn't find a to do this job,that day? Blasphemy !! Anyway it is a Hendrickson hauling a so I felt it should be posted. Interesting haul, if anything I guess! I didn't find any switchers this size in my Montville book. Anybody know which model it is? Or was it simply something used by Mack at a plant (hence the Mack lettering). Somebody here will know the answer. Al

It's a 1924 G.E. Trolly Motor Car Box Cab

Eight of these were built by General Electric in February 1924 in Joplin Missouri . Two of the locomotives are shown with the S.M.R.C. employees who built #5 at the lines Webb City shops. The 600-volt electricity required to power each units's four traction motors was supplied by overhead wire; colletced by the poles on top of the units.

The Mack Truck Company of Allentown, Pennsylvania, purchased #4 in 1939 and loaded IT onto railroad flat cars in Joplin, Missouri, for delivery to Mack's Allentown, Pennsylvania, plant. The two locomotives were rebuilt into experimental gas electric locomotives with Mack EP gasoline engines, and two 300-volt GE 1503 generators that were wired in series, “in theory” to provide 600 volts to the traction motors. However, the result was that this design proved to be a not-very-efficient electrical system and tended to be problematic. The two locomotives were used as plant switchers at the Mack truck factory until 1960:

Jimmy McHugh, Sr owner of McHugh Railroad Maintenance Company has been involved with it since about 1968., for use at the now bankrupt New Hope & Ivyland short line railroad in eastern Pennsylvania. McHugh had a fondness for the Mack rail units. It was unsuitable for road service at the NH&I, it was moved, (in 1971) to the McHugh Company facility in Penndel, Pennsylvania. #4 has now had some very necessary repairs made to it, as well as being cosmetically restored. It is currently placed on a short section of track at the McHugh Company plant in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, for display.

S Berlineer II photo

Jimmy Mchugh photo

[Superdog]

This '66 belongs to Mark McCullough from MO.It was built with a 1674 Cat,but the buyers weren't happy with the power so sent it back and had a 1693 Cat put in. It's a real low mile original,always kept inside .

[PeterMack]

Had to get this pic on a drive by of this Hendrickson. Has been sitting here for at least two months now. Don't know

who it belongs to. Seems to be in decent shape.

[felicello122]

Big Henry at the ATHS convention in Buffalo.

Rob

big henry have a v12 detriot in anybody know?

[bullhusk]

big henry have a v12 detriot in anybody know?

Not sure but I think it had a V12 Cummins?

[RFCDrum]

It was a Cummins.

Rob

[41chevy]

Did Hendrickson ever use the 48 to 53 Chevy cabs on the trucks?

Found this in my "box o photos" taken around 1940.

[Joe Ditchkus]

Paul I do not think so. Every Henry I ever saw used the International Cabs. I think from the 1940's anyway they used the KB cab,then the comfo vision fleetstar2070 and finallythe S-Series until out of production. Joe D.

[41chevy]

I thought so. I have a photo some where of what must be a re cabbed Hendrickson with a 49 to 52 Chevy / GMC cab and a Hendrickson style nose with GMC over the grill. I'll dig it out and post it. Odd looking unit. Paul

[Joe Ditchkus]

Paul I remember seeing a few years back a picture of a big tandem dump out West I think that had the GMC-Chevy cab. I hope you find picture to see if it is same one I remember. Joe D.