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Thanks for the help Bill.
Dennis Metzger

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Wow.. Billy slow day on the dog walking job?? when are you come visit the old 3 house?
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The Reason you might show the Tri-State Pioneer as Hinsdale when the Arrow is shown as Darien is quite possibly because Headquarters is currently at Station 2. Where as when the Pioneer was purchased Headquarters might have been Station 1. Like I said before, Station 1 is in unincorporated Hinsdale and Station 2 is in Darien. Just a guess though. I do know that all of the Tri-state units pictured were original to the department. The 81 ALF was supposedly a San Fransisco Reject but I do not recall that completely.
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Here's a few more for tonite. This is another rig that fought a lot of fire in it's career and it ran as a spare until the Darley rig's were delivered in 1997



Maywood, IL

Engine 505

1972 ALF 1000 Series

1500/500

Serial# 2566

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here's a few classic's from Melrose Park.



Melrose Park, IL

Engine 702

1972 Mack CF-600

1250/500

CF685F12-1425

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Melrose Park, IL

Engine 703

1954 IH/Central St.Louis

1000/250

John Tulipano photo


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Melrose Park, IL

Engine 703

1983 Ford C/Darley

1000/500

Serial# 62375

John Tulipano photo


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Melrose Park. IL

Engine 704

1968 Ford C/Darley

1000/250

Serial# 80277

John Tulipano photo


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Melrose Park, IL

1974 Mack CF-600

1250/500

Serial#CF685F-1704

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Here's the same rig after a 1990 rehab by RPI.

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I know this has been posted before but this is one of the best shots I've seen of this unique and somewhat reclusive piece.



Melrose Park, IL

Snorkel 705

1966 Seagrave

1000/200

90' Snorkel

Serial# P-5830

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Westchester, IL

Engine 312

1960 Seagrave

1000/350

John Tulipano photo


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Westchester, IL

Engine 313

1973 Ford C/Pierce

1000/750

Serial#8583-C

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This rig was destroyed in a rollover accident in 1984 or 85 at the corner of Mannheim Rd. and Canterbury Ave. as they were responding to a working house fire. Fortunately there were no majot injuries.


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And here's the rig that replaced the Pierce and was just recently replaced in the last couple years by another E\-One engine.



Westchester, IL

Engine 313

1985 Spartan/E-One

1500/750

Serial#E-1-4368

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Here's the brother to the '85 E\-One, built to the same specs and it relaced the '60 Seagrave.



Westchester, IL

Engine 314

1986 Spartan/E-One

1500/750

Serial# E-1-4691

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These next 2 rigs are unique pieces for the Chicago area. These 2 Maxim's were very few in the Midwest. Another little trivia piece about Westchester is in the mid '70's they went to a black over red color scheme when Dave Fornell (a name a lot of people in the business should know) was Chief from 1973 to about 1975 or '76. This engine got the wheels run off it in the '70's when it ran as the "Flying Squad" for the old Battalion 7 Mutual Aid Group which is now part of MABAS Division 20. the rig was manned daily from 0800-1800hrs with 6-7 firefighters, one from each department in the Battalion and they took in all reported structure fires and AFA's in the 7 towns.



Westchester, IL

Engine 314

1964 Maxim S

1000/500

Serial# 2442

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Westchester,IL

Truck 315

1975 Maxim F

250/200

100' MM

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This truck has been replaced by an E\-One quint and was rehabbed with a new body and ladder removal into the Division Tech Rescue rig. That is all for tonite. Many more rigs to scan here.


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That truck is now at University of Illinois - Fire Service Institute.

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Deerfield, IL 1984 Spartan/Pirsch 110'RM

PQ-48

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That Buick ended up in Maywood for a while when they crashed the "E" Squad.



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This photo by now retired Hillside Firefighter Frank Schnurstein from about 1974 shows the old '64 Buick ambo and the new '73 Dodge/Wayne I believe, [osed on the front ramp of the station. Compare these rigs to whats running their currently. Quite a difference thru the years! Photo posted with the permission of Frank Schnurstein.

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