Mack Trucks, Flood of '69

[other dog]

Some truck pictures I saw when I was looking at pictures of the flood in Nelson County in August,1969 on the Lynchburg newspaper's website.

Looks like a crane on a train turned over onto an R model, the other is an English Construction B model dump truck, out of Altavista, Va.

More pictures here- I thought I posted this link yesterday-

http://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/photos-the-destruction-of-hurricane-camille/collection_0630ed20-474c-11e5-a0d0-0bcb843378a8.html

[Vladislav]

Seems like the flood catched Macks either.

The shots like these make me think of how we people are small and unpowerfull creatures in the relation to our mother-nature.

[BOB DINGSDALE]

the big hook made mincemeat out of that r model but the b model survived

[fxfymn]

Hurricane Camille; one of the deadliest storms to ever strike Virginia. 151 souls died in a massive flood after Camille came ashore in Mississippi with the highest wind speeds ever recorded from a hurricane that made land fall in the US and killed 171 people before the deaths that occurred in VA. 

Based on the smoke in the background my bet is that is a steam powered crane being used to lift that locomotive. 

[57 bcr]

That R model  probably  got a new cab,and was put back  into service  in a  couple  of  weeks. It is now helping  someone  in a 3rd world  country,build a road  to a village that didn't  have one!   Al