Popular Post 2stacksuperdog Posted February 5, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted February 5, 2013 Some pictures i found off the internet of the Blizzard of '78 which hit the northeast hard. It was the first time CT ever closed it highways due to weather. I think the pictures of the DMs getting loaded in Hartford are Tomasso/Tilcon 8 Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike69mackman Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Cool pics! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Wonder how long those cars were stuck on the highway.Nice pics, thank you. Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stacksuperdog Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Wonder how long those cars were stuck on the highway.Nice pics, thank you.My dad was telling me how he was pulling cars off the Highway for days. He was only 15 at the time driving a F-350 for East Side Garage. I like the picture of the 2 B-models and Ford plowing the best. Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Cool pics. I remember the blizzard, got Ohio pretty good. I recall digging tunnels through the snow all over the back yard. Ahhhh long time ago......... Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stacksuperdog Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 My dad was just telling me one of the last cars he got a week later took him the whole day to dig out. The owner f the car called the DMV because of the big price. they wanted to talk to the driver (who didn't have a license ) Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Cool photos. We had just moved to another house on Long Island and my Dad's Diamond Reo and rented trailer was backed up to the front door when the storm hit, and thats where it stayed for the better part of a week. He had planned to be off anyway but by the time he was ready to hit the road again we had made little headway in clearing a path to the street. It was probably 4-5 days later when we had a plow come in and clean it up and things were still a mess. Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 OH MY THERE IS A U MODEL IN THAT THIRD PICTURE!!!! SWEEET!!! Cool pictures. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I sure wish i could find an "abandoned" Brockway sitting alongside the road like the one in the first picture! i remember that storm well,hit Jersey pretty hard,we actually had the National Guard helping plow in South Jersey with 6X6 army trucks. My dad was on the road in Chicago i believe,talked to him on the phone,he said it was the first time ever he had been "snowed out" of anywhere! as most all the major roads were closed for days....................................Mark Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162258 Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul roncetti Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I remember that storm well, a combination of a Northeaster and Hurricane, lasted 3 full days. Took over a month to dig out the Boston area. The National Guard flew in equipment to Albany, they plowed all the way to Boston on the Mass Pike, cutting down guard rails with acetaline torches to cross the highway. They flew more equipment to Warwick, RI to plow north and meet up with the units coming in from the west. State Police headed north and west from Cape Cod with many volunteers on snowmoblies and using long probes located cars buried on the interstates. Many people died in their cars, I swore Id never ever see another storm like that. The above pic with bulldozers looks like they are plowing into Boston on the Southeast Expressway. Building in distance is definately the Prudential Center...Paul Quote RONCETTI Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Cool photos.We had just moved to another house on Long Island and my Dad's Diamond Reo and rented trailer was backed up to the front door when the storm hit, and thats where it stayed for the better part of a week. He had planned to be off anyway but by the time he was ready to hit the road again we had made little headway in clearing a path to the street. It was probably 4-5 days later when we had a plow come in and clean it up and things were still a mess.I managed to get on the LIE about 5 days after the storm from Rte.135 heading to Grummans in Calverton and had to run to Riverhead and back to Rte135 as there was only the entrance ramps opened up and only 3 exits opened up between 135 and Riverhead. Most of the LIE and Rte135 were a single lane around stranded cars and trucks too. Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdogtrucker Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Great pics!!! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 2stacksuperdog Posted February 6, 2013 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 6, 2013 More from the internet 4 Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stacksuperdog Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 Notice how a lot of the pictures have Macks in them Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 More from the internetI spotted another U model!!!! It's behind them two R models side by side, I can see the U models red air cleaner and stainless passenger mirror bracket stickin' out back there. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
purepressure2004 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Ct public television had a pretty elaborate special on it like a year or so ago. I bet if you go on they're website you can probably buy a copy. Quote Mack and OshKosh enthusiest in central CT Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
2stacksuperdog Posted February 6, 2013 Author Share Posted February 6, 2013 Ct public television had a pretty elaborate special on it like a year or so ago. I bet if you go on they're website you can probably buy a copy.I was just watching a part of it on YouTube Quote Matt Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb502 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I spotted another U model!!!! It's behind them two R models side by side, I can see the U models red air cleaner and stainless passenger mirror bracket stickin' out back there. Vinny, look closer at those two R models, the one on the left sure has a long mirror bracket on the passenger side, you can see the whole exhaust pipe without vertical muffler and its inboard of the mirror. I bet that there R is actually a U if you really look. Quote "Any Society that would give up a little LIBERTY to gain a little SECURITY will Deserve Neither and LOSE BOTH" -Benjamin Franklin"If your gonna be STUPID, you gotta be TOUGH" "You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you need" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack mhe9 Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 cool pics Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifth wheel Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 For clean up they took anything with a dump body, 10 wheelers worked all night for 2 months. Local sand and gravel co. came to me for any 673 engines or parts to get trucks running from the their parts trucks and all the pit trucks were there. No registrations nothing.FW 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifth wheel Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 My dad was telling me how he was pulling cars off the Highway for days. He was only 15 at the time driving a F-350 for East Side Garage. I like the picture of the 2 B-models and Ford plowing the best.The Ford is coming upon a buried car.FW Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39 Baby Mack Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 My dad was telling me how he was pulling cars off the Highway for days. He was only 15 at the time driving a F-350 for East Side Garage. I like the picture of the 2 B-models and Ford plowing the best.East Side Garage? Dick Woodcocks in Saratoga Springs?Ron Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTFormula Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I remember that storm too I was around 6 years old at the time. We moved into our new house that summer and the deck off the back was 8' off the ground. We were jumping off the deck into the snow like it was a cushion. Huge snow forts could be found everwhere around the neighborhood. Ah memories. 1 Quote ~ JT Burkard ~ AKA Sweaty Mackwww.jtresto.com www.wickedreputation.netwww.jonathanthomasmotorcars.com Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 ya,,,i remember it quite well...roads were closed for days,,,the entire east coast was shut down,,,they had to clear the highways,,with payloaders,,,i was workin for nissens bakery at the time,,,and we had to carry letters off athority to come to work,,and haul the products,,,because cars were banned from travel for days,after that,everybody was on foot,,walking to corner stores,,and markets,,trying to buy food,,it was horrible...bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 I was living in Bethpage and working in Grummans transportation dept. They sent a snowmobiles to get all the drivers to work clearing the facility and the runwaysAmazing now that you look back, the mess was worse than Sandy and cleaned up faster. I don't even recall power outages. Paul Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29808-interesting-pictures/#findComment-162400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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