This & That from Here & There

[GA_Dave]

Engine 40, Olean, NY

2011 HME Silverfox

1250/1000

[GA_Dave]

Engine 41, Olean, NY

1997 Simon-Duplex/Saulsbury

1250/1000

#296042

[Image7801]

Engine 41, Olean, NY

1997 Simon-Duplex/Saulsbury

1250/1000

#296042

Interesting to see breathing air cylinders on (the exterior of) a pumper.  Do you know if they use them as a cascade system to refill bottles, run air tools, or...?

[GA_Dave]

Interesting to see breathing air cylinders on (the exterior of) a pumper.  Do you know if they use them as a cascade system to refill bottles, run air tools, or...?

To be completely honest, I never even noticed them there.  They really didn't want to pull that one out for me and I was more concerned with getting the specs before they backed it into it's dark corner of the station.

[GA_Dave]

Engine 42, Olean, NY

2008 HME Silverfox

1250/1000

#21222

[GA_Dave]

Engine 4, Bolivar, NY

2005 GMC 5500/KME

500/500/100F 4x4

#GSO-5951

[GA_Dave]

   The 2014 Southwestern New York Volunteer Firemen's Convention parade was being held in Bolivar.  Engine 4 was photographed in the staging area.  None of the other apparatus attending were parked conducive to photography, so I grabbed specs while waiting for the parade to start.  I then picked a spot away from the crowds and with a decent background and waited.  The marching units were staged down the street at the high school and the 15 or so apparatus would not head out until all the marching units had stepped off.  From the apparatus staging area to the high school was about a quarter mile.  This was the area where I had planned to photograph from.  When the apparatus began to move, they did so at the highest possible speed, only having to slam on brakes when they caught up to the end of the marching units, but much too fast for me to get non-blurry shots as they passed me.  Many of the drivers looked right at me as they went by, stepping on the accelerator.  Idiots! 

   Frustrated, I moved on.....

 

Engine 1, West Valley, NY

2009 Spartan Furion/KME

1250/770

#GSO-7553

[GA_Dave]

   This engine is for sale, sitting on the lawn next to the station, along with an ambulance, making this angle about the best I could get.  The only member there didn't know what year it was and the cab was locked.

 

Engine 2, West Valley, NY (retired)

19?? AutoCar/Darley

1000/1800 4x4

[GA_Dave]

Engine 411, Cherry Creek, NY

1991 International 4900/E-One

1250/1000

#9455

 

x-Kiantone, NY

[GA_Dave]

Engine 412, Cherry Creek, NY

1994 Ford F-800/KME

1250/1000

#GSO-2356

[GA_Dave]

Tanker 411, Cherry Creek, NY

1992 Ford LN-8000/Local

0/3750

[GA_Dave]

M-411, Cherry Creek, NY

2012 Ford F-350/Reading

4x4

[GA_Dave]

Engine 431, Ellington, NY

1996 Freightliner FL-80/4-Guys

1250/1000

#F-1758

[GA_Dave]

Engine 432, Ellington, NY

2000 Freightliner FL-80/4-Guys

1250/1000

#F-2069

[GA_Dave]

Tanker 431, Ellington, NY

2003 Freightliner FL-80/4-Guys

0/2000

[GA_Dave]

   Several years ago, Ellington purchased a GMC 6500/Marion (sold by Young, #89N912) rescue truck from Dunkirk, NY and remounted the body on a new chassis.

 

Rescue 431, Ellington, NY

2009 Freightliner M2/1989 Marion

[GA_Dave]

Engine 251, Mayville, NY

1995 HME 1871/Southern Coach

1500/1000

#432

 

x-Wysox, PA E-3

x-Seaside Heights, NJ E-4411

[GA_Dave]

Rescue 252, Mayville, NY

2007 International 7400/KME

#GSO-6797

[GA_Dave]

Engine 355, Jamestown, NY

2014 Spartan/4-Guys

1500/775

#F-2893

[GA_Dave]

Engine 312, Busti, NY

2012 Kenworth T-800/Pierce

1500/2500

#25337