Relics

[Guest]

The other shot old Rescue 1.

Gleitsmann Collection

[Guest]

Here is a shot of it in-service.

Gleitsmann Collection

[Guest]

Like them old Baltimore City shots Paul!

Here are a couple from the Waters collection I think you were talking about.



Reserve Truck 36 (behind the shop) 1982 Seagrave PT 100' TDA ex Truck 21, 16 - Shop # 327

[Guest]

Here it is months later in 2005 in the Dickman Street yard.

[Guest]

[quote name='BCFDT782' post='37592' date='Sep 27 2006, 17:44 ']Thanks for the update Signal 30!!! Do you know what other rigs are there? Also any pictures???



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There are a couple ex BFD and and several ex- AACO behind a fence on private property- very unfriendly owner.

Try digging around the "Baltimore City Classics" & Anne Arundel threads over on TWD.

[Guest]

Thanks SIgnal 30,

Anne Arundel County

Powhatan Beach Brush 15

1953 Dodge M37

Gleitsmann Collection

[Guest]

Here is another Anne Arundel County unit....Gleitsmann Collection

[Chasselber1]

How cool would it be if Baltimore city went back to White over Omaha Orange.

[Guest]

[quote name='Chasselber1' post='38027' date='Sep 29 2006, 08:46 ']How cool would it be if Baltimore city went back to White over Omaha Orange.[/quote]

Yeah that would be neat if Baltimore City went back to being White over Omaha Orange.



Here is another relic from Anne Arundel County Engine 311 1965 Pirsch.

Gleitsmann Collection

[Guest]

This is how it sits today.

Gleitsmann Collection

[Guest]

[quote name='Chasselber1' post='38027' date='Sep 29 2006, 08:46 ']How cool would it be if Baltimore city went back to White over Omaha Orange.[/quote]



100% Behind this...

I think a few more should go back to the 80's look...

Newark, NJ with its white over lime with a red stripe!!!

Boston with its Old Lettering!



I love how really the ONLY change you see on LA County rigs is the striping... still RED with the same lettering from 1972!!!!! AWESOME - Ok, they will have 21 Black over Red engines soon.... THE CAFS units will get a new look.

[John Kenealy]

[quote name='Fireman5230' post='38536' date='Sep 30 2006, 22:26 ']100% Behind this...

I think a few more should go back to the 80's look...

Newark, NJ with its white over lime with a red stripe!!!

Boston with its Old Lettering!



I love how really the ONLY change you see on LA County rigs is the striping... still RED with the same lettering from 1972!!!!! AWESOME - Ok, they will have 21 Black over Red engines soon.... THE CAFS units will get a new look.[/quote]





I'd like to see Washington DC go back to the all-red with the wide white stripe (pre-stars and bars). I always thought that was a sharp look.

[Guest]

[quote name='thefireman4501' post='38527' date='Sep 30 2006, 21:13 ']How about a few retired rigs fron down yonder? No, not down under, down YONDER, in the great Southeastern States. We'll start with one just a stones throw from Scratchankle, Tenn. Just across the State Line is the Town of Cohutta, GA. Here is their recently retired ALF. It sits behind Sta. 1, silently wishing for better days.[/quote]



This post highlights something I've always wondered about... what is the though process involved with making a decision remove an older apparatus from service and "just park it out back"? I understand it may need to be stored somewhere temporarily but I've seen stations with apparatus rotting away in the weeds in the backyard for decades. I would think it would make more sense to sell it at whatever price you could get just to rid yourself of the responsibility of having it sit there for years.



I understand the quote above describes a "recently retired" ALF and I am sure it will be surplused in some fashion so my question doesn't necessarily address the quoted picture.

[Guest]

Take it from one who rode 'em -Baltimore's orange and white not only looked awful, but was a pain to keep clean.

[Guest]

Hanover VA

[Guest]

[quote name='CNYFireTrucks' post='38705' date='Oct 1 2006, 10:12 ']I'd like to see Washington DC go back to the all-red with the wide white stripe (pre-stars and bars). I always thought that was a sharp look.[/quote]



Ain't gonna happen. Expect a few changes here and there, but not that drastic. MMM, highway doors coming soon to a firehouse near you...

[Guest]

I dont know anything about this rig, except that it is a FireSpire. I found it sitting at a business in Sierra Vista AZ last summer. When I photographed it, it looked like it had just been painted white from lime green. I saw this truck again this summer in Phoenix, in the disposal yard at the State Land Department. I am told that most likely, the engine and transmission will be pulled out of it, and the body will be taken to the Barry Goldwater Gunnery Range. There it will be attached to a cable, and pulled across the range as A-10's from Davis Monthan Air Force Base will blow it to pieces. There are many more in that yard that will meet with the same fate. Hope to get some of them photographed before they are sent out west.

   

[mack505]

[quote name='RichRoadB' post='39675' date='Oct 3 2006, 23:09 ']I am told that most likely, the engine and transmission will be pulled out of it, and the body will be taken to the Barry Goldwater Gunnery Range. There it will be attached to a cable, and pulled across the range as A-10's from Davis Monthan Air Force Base will blow it to pieces.[/quote]

I understand and respect the need for our armed forces to train, but that takes the cake for 'Worst Fate for a Relic' so far.



Any chance of talking them out of the Mars 888s on the nose before they shoot it up? I'll give them a good home.

[smketrfdny]

but that takes the cake for 'Worst Fate for a Relic' so far

See your point, but have to disagree. Painting a rig from red to slime or yellow is worse than using it for target practice....................... <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Frank B]

Hey, could you get the Cab ID from this truck? It should be on the passenger seat in the cab! One of a few Hahn chassis Fire Tec aerials with a Hahn Fire spire 85' aerial ladder. 1000gpm 200gwt

Can you send me a full size pick of this truck? Great shot! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hail.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Fort Ord CA 1980

Fort Knox KY 1980

Rock Island Arsenal IL 1980

Fort Brag NC 1981

Fort Leonard Wood MO

Recently posted, at the Kennett FC the Ft Leanord Wood Hahn!