I believe that your old Mack went to Hamilton, Harris County, in west Gerogia, about 90 miles southwest of Atlanta. That's a county seat with about 500 people in a county of less than 20,000 people. One of our life members from Butler NJ relocated to a smaller town in that county in 1989 so I frequent the area. The last time I was actually in Hamilton was last year with that engine sitting under an overhang at a former gas station in the center of town. Since my very good friend is active with 3 volunteer stations I asked if he knew anything and told me the same story. The stations that he is with all have received apparatus and equipment from their better off fellow firefighers in New Jersey and New York and are concerned that their governmental officials may try to do the same thing when the time comes that that equipment is deemed surplus as some members up north have expressed a desire to get them back for restoration projects some time in the future.
Sorry to say that I don't have any pics that I can put my hands on right now.
Rich Dean
[quote name='Crossbronxxpress' post='93719' date='Apr 2 2007, 17:05 ']The second Mack engine was a 1940 Mack. Not sure what model it was. This rig was sold to a dept. in Georgia back in the 60's. They still had this rig up until around '97-'98 and it was STILL lettered for Palmyra, NJ, and not in that bad of condition. My father was the Chief of Palmyra at that time and received a phone call from one of the boro council people from Palmyra. They said that the Mayor of the town in Georgia that had the rig had contacted them about getting the 1940 Mack back to Palmyra. Everyone was pretty excited about this and they were in talks with the townspeople in Georgia when it was decided that they would sell the engine back to Palmyra for $1.00 just to make it legal. A few weeks before the transaction was to take place, a problem arose. Seems someone in the town council in Georgia had a problem with them basically giving Palmyra the old rig, and not auctioning it. So they wound up auctioning it off and someone from the town outbid Palmyra by a very small amount. The winner supposedly offered to sell the rig back to Palmyra for some astronomical amount of money. My father was so angry he told the guy to shove it........in so many words. So i have no idea as to what ever happened to that rig. For all i know, it may have been scrapped, which would have been a HUGE TRAVESTY. The rig didn't really need that much work to have her looking like new again.
Anybody else know where this rig is now??? GA Dave???[/quote]
Sorry to say that I don't have any pics that I can put my hands on right now.
Rich Dean
[quote name='Crossbronxxpress' post='93719' date='Apr 2 2007, 17:05 ']The second Mack engine was a 1940 Mack. Not sure what model it was. This rig was sold to a dept. in Georgia back in the 60's. They still had this rig up until around '97-'98 and it was STILL lettered for Palmyra, NJ, and not in that bad of condition. My father was the Chief of Palmyra at that time and received a phone call from one of the boro council people from Palmyra. They said that the Mayor of the town in Georgia that had the rig had contacted them about getting the 1940 Mack back to Palmyra. Everyone was pretty excited about this and they were in talks with the townspeople in Georgia when it was decided that they would sell the engine back to Palmyra for $1.00 just to make it legal. A few weeks before the transaction was to take place, a problem arose. Seems someone in the town council in Georgia had a problem with them basically giving Palmyra the old rig, and not auctioning it. So they wound up auctioning it off and someone from the town outbid Palmyra by a very small amount. The winner supposedly offered to sell the rig back to Palmyra for some astronomical amount of money. My father was so angry he told the guy to shove it........in so many words. So i have no idea as to what ever happened to that rig. For all i know, it may have been scrapped, which would have been a HUGE TRAVESTY. The rig didn't really need that much work to have her looking like new again.
Anybody else know where this rig is now??? GA Dave???[/quote]
Rich Dean, Butler, New Jersey, USA
Member of Kinney Hose Co. 1, Butler Fire Dept. since 1973, Fire Police Officer since 2000
Dispatcher at Butler Police Communications from March 1975 to July 2009
Secretary of North Jersey Volunteer Firemen's Association since 1980
Member of Tri-Boro First Aid Squad (volunteer ems) since 2000 as a driver
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Member of Kinney Hose Co. 1, Butler Fire Dept. since 1973, Fire Police Officer since 2000
Dispatcher at Butler Police Communications from March 1975 to July 2009
Secretary of North Jersey Volunteer Firemen's Association since 1980
Member of Tri-Boro First Aid Squad (volunteer ems) since 2000 as a driver
Member of many Yahoogroups, owner of some such as:
[post="0"]FirematicEvents Yahoogroup[/post]the place to for listing and discussion of any event by a public safety organization.
[post="0"]RailfanEvents Yahoogroup[/post]
[post="0"]Railpics Yahoogroup[/post]
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