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You said something about Norwalk soon to have a tiller again??? Any details

Um are those condos on the Byram side??? If I'm right that would be the old Hoffman Fuel site on S Water?

My God Ang,the waterfront has changed since I was there last! Is that Costco where the old Daily Item and Arnolds building was? (Curious to see how many know that) Nice ride for sure, but it sure as hell isn't a Mack or an Oren; but then again nothing ever will be again. Are you guys going to put any lettering/logos over the compartments? I think it looks a little plain up there. I also just did the math, and realized that the Grumman has served the longest of any of the paid engines! Never would have figured that 23 years ago. I thought that rig was a mistake when it was bought; guess I was wrong. I really hope to be back there again over Thanksgiving. I finally have a job where I can take off around holidays, and want to take my kids to the Macys parade.

From the looks of it, that is an old ambulance from The Island. Possibly Levittown or Wantagh? Any idea?

Hell there were some pretty concrete plans to build the UN on a large campus in backcountry Greenwich too! Now try and imagine that one! Needless to say the powers that be shot it down quickly.

Hell Angelo, I was told that Washington's Fox was cut up for a scrap metal drive! Just goes to show, you never know. Who's Fox is up on the Cape? I know that Mellors 54 Fox and Put's 53 ALF floated around the muster circuit for a number of years, and then seemed to have disappeared. Know what happened to those, or any of HH's tillers? Last I heard the old T2 was still sitting at the Sutphen plant with a whole bunch of old trade-in's. Have you ever run across any of 58 or 59's old rigs?

Thanks for the info. I had no idea that so many old NCFD rigs were still around. I knew about the WLF, the 22 Seagrave, and 24 ALF. One of those older one's was in pieces the last time I saw it(about 1993). Is the WLF relettered or still plain? Also I vaguely remember, as a kid, a small utility body style rescue living behind the ladder. This was before the Ford C/Saulsbury rescue came in, so I always assumed it was a rescue. This wasn't the 41 Diamond T, was it? And how long did the IHC brush rig serve? I don't ever remember seeing in person, just in that old station pic.

Is the dept restoring the 49 Seagrave aerial? And are all the other antiques still floating around? If so, has any work been done to the 48(?) WLF engine?

It is a 1975. It replaced a 1947(I believe) Seagrave quint.

This company from Totowa has been coming since at least the late 70's.

I started going to the parade in the late 70's, and never once saw them march. I once watched the parade from the turntable of the Seagrave rear-mount, when it was parked on one of the sidestreets right downtown. The guys told me that because of the congestion in the village during the parade, they were better off stationing rigs in different areas around the parade, then to march in it. Plus they said, there was just so much to do, this was easier.

I really don't know Mike. I scoured over my pics to try and tell you which it was, but I couldn't see any difference, other than the street sign on the bumper. I'm sure that was removed before they sold it though. My pics were from 1994, so they may have done something different to one of them between when I shot them, and when you shot them Mike. I give up otherwise!

Well Mike I can tell ya. I knew I recognized the truck, but it took a while to register. It's from Terryville LINY. They had 2 identical 1981 Mack CF 1500/500 pumpers. E5A-4-2 was 4dr'ed by Greenwood Fire Apparatus in 1993, and E5A-4-11 was 4dr'ed by Greenwood in 1992. I've compared my pics of them both, and aside from a street sign on one bumper, they were completely identical. All that was done by Greenwood was the 4 door conversion, and from the looks of it, that's still the case. That is original Mack bodywork.

You're thinking of the old PemFab double-ended cab, w/ the "wedge" cab on one end, and their full custom on the other.

Where are the rest of Suffern's rigs? Looks like Mawah had as much equipment there as Suffern.