Loudoun County,Va.

[mnsand]

I had the unique opportunity yesterday to be a part of repeating history in Leesburg. I visited Leesburg's open house on Saturday to see the new Seagrave tiller and one of the new Seagrave engines that recently arrived at the dealership. Both the tiller and engine were brought down to the fire station for open house.



Over the last several years, I have worked with Leesburg's Chief and doing a variety of magazine articles about Leesburg for The Virginia Fire News magazine. We had talked about getting a group picture of the ladder trucks when the new Seagrave tiller was delivered. When we saw each other at open house, he mentioned to me that this might be the last opportunity that all of the Leesburg ladder trucks would be in Leesburg. After the open house, we made arrangements to have drivers for each of the ladder trucks and get group photos.



It was challenging because it was getting late in the day and the shadows on the apparatus was making it difficult for photos. However, the new Seagrave tiller was heading back on Monday for continued work to get it ready for service.



It was neat having all of the ladder trucks follow each other through town to the photo site - a local park in the area.



We wanted to "re-capture" the earlier photo of the three ladder trucks at Leesburg. The older photo at the two tillers on the ends and the E\-One in the middle. Yesterday's photos also had two tillers on the ends and the E\-One in the middle. The new Seagrave tiller is on the left, the E\-One rearmount in the center, and Leesburg's Reserve Truck 1 (used for driver training) on the right.





Mike Sanders

Ashburn, VA