Last pic -- another retired SFD Kenworth/Heiser.
Obviously I'm biased, having lived here since 1989, but these old SFD Kenworths are some of my favorite rigs. I love the look of them -- they're just gigantic in person. Most of them had manual transmissions, so when you'd see them respond, the drivers would be working the gears going up and down Seattle's hills. They were louder than any other rigs I've ever heard. You could hear them from blocks away. There's only two of them left in service in the SFD as far as I know, both of which were converted to hose wagons.
Sorry about the brutal shadows, but all of these rigs were parked in the middle of two buildings and under trees. There were many more trucks there, but they were so shadowed out I didn't even take pics of them.
Obviously I'm biased, having lived here since 1989, but these old SFD Kenworths are some of my favorite rigs. I love the look of them -- they're just gigantic in person. Most of them had manual transmissions, so when you'd see them respond, the drivers would be working the gears going up and down Seattle's hills. They were louder than any other rigs I've ever heard. You could hear them from blocks away. There's only two of them left in service in the SFD as far as I know, both of which were converted to hose wagons.
Sorry about the brutal shadows, but all of these rigs were parked in the middle of two buildings and under trees. There were many more trucks there, but they were so shadowed out I didn't even take pics of them.