Maryland photo's

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[quote name='tascman' timestamp='1296421717' post='422827']The Baltimore, MD FD Shops had this IH wrecker. Might be the same one I posted earlier in orange.[/quote]



Yes this is the same rig. It was repainted orange in the mid to late 70s.

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[quote name='tascman' timestamp='1296420427' post='422819']The City of Baltimore, MD once operated this Ford Van as a Mobile Hospital Unit.[/quote]



This was another rig that was repainted to the orange/white color scheme in the mid to late 70s. I think it looked better in the old white & red.

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All my photos are much too large to post here so I'll put them on as clickable links. Here's New Windsor's Seagrave Rescue-pump:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137559055/





Glyndon's Seagrave 2250 GPM Rescue-pump with CAFS:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137545517/





Forestville, MD Prince George's County Seagrave Heavy Rescue:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137377009/





Brunswick, MD:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137980594/





Baltimore County:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137980314/

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[quote name='tascman' timestamp='1296421905' post='422829']Baltimore, MD Engine # 59 was this neat Ward LaFrance pumper. Loaded for bear![/quote]



This rig originally was one of the high pressure hose companies that served the high value districts downtown. Only two were equipped with pumps. When the hose companies were disbanded in the mid 70s, two of the companies were organized into engine companies, #1 & # 59. (Engine 1 was always the rescue squad. When it was renamed as "Rescue 1" around 1970, Baltimore was without an "Engine 1" until the hose companies were disbanded.) Engine 59 operated as the satellite engine to the water tower.

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Lansdowne, MD's Seagrave pump visiting Lansdowne, PA!!



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5124755810/





And speaking of Lansdowne, PA here's the future Owings Mills "ladder tender" posing with her replacement. If one looks carefully you can see the back of Lansdowne, MD's rig between the two Seagraves in the foreground.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5124112371/





Kensington, MD's 1967 Seagrave pump:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5124711926/





This rig is now a spare for Baltimore City (now painted white over red), working for her original owner, Norwood, PA:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5124637200/

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Baltimore's Seagrave Snorkel, taken at the onetime FESCO facility:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5124671742/





Baltimore's "Ladder 49" poses with a 2009 Seagrave ladder for Yeadon, PA at the Philadelphia Fire Muster, 2009.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5124065685/





What would later become Accokeek, MD's rig, working for her original owner Bryn Mawr, PA:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5124029975/

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[quote name='MrFWDSeagrave' timestamp='1296435116' post='422869']

All my photos are much too large to post here so I'll put them on as clickable links. Here's New Windsor's Seagrave Rescue-pump:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137559055/





Glyndon's Seagrave 2250 GPM Rescue-pump with CAFS:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137545517/





Forestville, MD Prince George's County Seagrave Heavy Rescue:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137377009/



Forestville, MD doesn't have a rescue squad. The squad in the picture is in the Silesia station, Co. 847.





Brunswick, MD:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137980594/





Baltimore County:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/55246878@N08/5137980314/

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That Seagrave Rescue is actually assigned to the Silesia Fire Station 47, Forestville is an Engine House only..

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[quote name='nfdmaxim' timestamp='1296506376' post='423054']

1957 (or '59?) Ford Gerstenslager

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The "Rigs of the Unheralded Heroes" list it as a 1958 model. Gerty made some great rigs back in the day. Here is the MHU in it's white/red color scheme. Photo from my collection, original photographer unknown.

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[quote name='Rescue131' timestamp='1296512491' post='423078']

The "Rigs of the Unheralded Heroes" list it as a 1958 model. Gerty made some great rigs back in the day. Here is the MHU in it's white/red color scheme. Photo from my collection, original photographer unknown.

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I am sure it would make awesome reading to find the old MOP's (is that right for Baltimore FD?) governing the use of some of the older specialized units from back in their glory days. Does anybody have access to them and a scanner? I'd love to read/hear more about operating policies and procedures for such apparatus.

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[quote name='CVFDASSTChief' timestamp='1296511443' post='423066']

That Seagrave Rescue is actually assigned to the Silesia Fire Station 47, Forestville is an Engine House only..

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Funny because the handouts that were with the rig said Forestville on them. OK.