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This was the highlight of the stop at Midtown. This engine still runs, they're just working on some repairs to the pump before it re-enters service as the 2nd out engine!



Midtown, TN "110?"



1966 IHC CO-8190/Hahn (one of three made that year from their understanding)

750/500

S/N # FD-106683



I have two sets of records on where this one formerly served. My records from somewhere show that it formerly served Briarcliff Manor, NY and Archville, NY.



Their memories of the truck is that it served Scarboro, NY. The engine was formerly all white, with "SCARBORO" across the front of the cab. The chief of Midtown VFD's last name was Scarborough and he didn't want the fire truck running around with his last name (albeit spelled differently) on the front of it. So they painted a red stripe through the middle of the cab to block out SCARBORO.



Any help would be appreciated!



Andrew Messer Photo (2012)





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Scarborough is the name of the Fire Distirct that is protected by the Archville Fire Company - whom once owned the rig in question. Scarborough is a train station on the Hudson line of the o-north rail system and a hamlet in the Town of Ossining and Briarcliff Manor NY both in Westchester County. At one point until the early 1970's the Archville Fire Department and the Scarborough Engine Company, (part of the Briarcliff Fire Department) were one company until a state law said the agreeement was not legal. The Scarborough Engine Company in Briarcliff is a about a mile away - if that - from the Archville Fire House.... New York and its boundries and districts make life pretty interesting. Just to really confuse things - said Scarborough Fire District part of the town of Mount Pleasant NY....