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Engine Co. 29 running a 1987 Spartan/FMC originally Engine 38, sitting on Falls Road, just north of W.Coldspring La.

The officer's side of 29 Engine.

Engine 56 and behind I think Reserve Medic 38 sitting at E.Northern Pkwy on a medical in early 1995.

A hose bed view of 56 Engine when brand new inside their house at 6512 Harford Rd. in Hamilton.

Baltimore City Fire Department Flood Light 1

1947 Mack

Owned by [url="https://www.facebook.com/FireMuseumMD"]The Fire Museum of Maryland[/url]

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Baltimore City Fire Department Flood Light 1

1947 Mack

Owned by [url="https://www.facebook.com/FireMuseumMD"]The Fire Museum of Maryland[/url]

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Beautiful!

Who owns old Floodlight 2 now? It used to be in Charlie Black's fire museum over in Hebron, MD, but I had heard that he sold most of his rigs.

Caught these guys on a fireground at the 300-blk of N. Gilmor St. the other day.

Engine Co.52.

well I finally broke down, and hooked up my New Scanner, so Im going to start scanning all my 3x5's from my youth, and stuff that i traded or purchased at shows. this will be an ongoing endeaver, so keep checking back.

here's one to see how it worked.

BCFD E-17

well lookes like it worked, here's BCFD Engine 10

Here's Engine 2's Grumman

Engine 3's Spartan/FMC

Engine 4 Seagrave

Engine 6's Spartan

Let me guess, I would bet that all of that extra diamond plate on E4's 1974 rig was to cover up a lot of rust spots/holes!

BCFD FL 2 yaken at Charlie Blacks place.

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Let me guess, I would bet that all of that extra diamond plate on E4's 1974 rig was to cover up a lot of rust spots/holes!

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In most, if not all snowbelt communities, you will find at least one or more rigs suffering from premature rusting. Road salt is a very corrosive material when it comes to metal. All the undercoating and paint is not going to help. Where I work, snowplow trucks are replaced on the average of every 10 years, not because of the mileage or mechanical issues, but because of rust and body rot.

Plus add the cheap steel from the 70's those poor Seagrave's didn't stand a chance. Joke was on a quiet night you could hear a city Seagrave rusting.

Baltimore's C Model Mack in front of Headquarters when delivered in 1963