Fire trucks and trains...

[mnsand]

Additional information and photographs from the Clifon Forge Volunteer Rescue Squad in Virginia.


 

Back in 2009, while on work, I found an ambulance sitting in a dealership lot.  It was a 2008 Ford E450/Wheeled Coach for the Clifton Forge Rescue Squad.  See posts 28-31 on this thread for those photos.  What was unusual was the C&O Railroad steam engine 610 mural painted on the driver side.

 

This past February I was heading to West Virginia for work and it was getting late in the afternoon.  My Dad loves trains and at one point lived in Clifton Forge.  His grandfather was a conductor on the C&O RR in Clifton Forge, so a special area for him.  Since I saw that ambo in 2009, I figured I would drop by the Rescue Squad and see what they had.



 

“15” – a 2009 Chevrolet 4500/Wheeled Coach.  Note the mural – same as the older 2008 Ford.  That is because the department swapped out the Ford for a 2009 Chevrolet because they had numerous issues with the Ford.  It was told the Ford was in service less than a year before the decision was made to put the box on the 2009 Chevrolet.

 

 

Mike Sanders

Winchester, VA