All Time Favorite FDNY Rig

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What is your all-time favorite FDNY rig?
Maybe I should break this question down as follows:
1. Engine
2. Truck
3. Rescue
4. Other
 
sandero said:
What is your all-time favorite FDNY rig?
Maybe I should break this question down as follows:
1. Engine
2. Truck
3. Rescue
4. Other
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1. Engine - Mack CF Pumpers
2. Truck - Mack CF TLs
3. Rescue - Mack R model Rescues
4. Other - Mack Field Comm., Mack rearmount Ladders (Lad 30, Lad 132).

  Just call me Willy D Mackman.
 
As far as engines go it has to be the Mack CF units.  Not only were they rugged and good-looking but they served in the war years!

Probably the same goes for the ladders, the Mack CF ones were certainly a mean machine although the new Seagraves are also very nice.  Everyone also has to love the tillers of one generation or another.

As far as rescues go it would probably be any of the Salsbury would probably the top of my list although the Pierce that Rescue 1 had with also a great unit.

I really don't have any great love for any of the special units other than the boats and probably the new Bravest would be my choice there.
 
1. Engine - Mack CF

2. Truck - Mack CF TL

3.  Rescue 1 1959 Mack/Gerstenslager

4. Other - The Super Pumper


Nah, I don't like the Macks much..  8)



 
 
336 said:
1. Engine - Mack CF

2. Truck - Mack CF TL

3.  Rescue 1 1959 Mack/Gerstenslager

4. Other - The Super Pumper


Nah, I don't like the Macks much..  8)
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  All right "336". Mack Super Pumper too.

  I think one of the Mack Tower Ladders is still serving in Stamford, Ct with the Belltown Vol dept.

  Canterbury, Ct has a Mack TL that formerly was Hartfords Ladder 3. It served during the busiest years for the HFD.

  Chesea, Mass may still have a rehabbed FDNY Mack TL.

  Providence, RI had two former FDNY Mack TLs as Ladders 1 and 2, their busiest, up until a few years ago.

  Some of these rigs almost 40 years old.
 
1. Engine:  Mack CF
2. Truck: any ALF 900 series TDA (1960 to'69)
3. Rescue:  Rescue 1 1959 Mack L Gerstenslager
4. Other:  Searchlight #1 a 1959 Mack B-20
 
In my first Vollie Dept, way back in CT, we had a 79 CF, best engine I ever had the privilege of working off of.. I was young and dumber but still appreciated her, even then. If I ever build that pole barn,,  I'm gonna get me a CF something or another.. 

This new crap is like driving an elevator with a little better view,


nfd2004 said:
336 said:
1. Engine - Mack CF

2. Truck - Mack CF TL

3.  Rescue 1 1959 Mack/Gerstenslager

4. Other - The Super Pumper


Nah, I don't like the Macks much..  8)
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  All right "336". Mack Super Pumper too.

  I think one of the Mack Tower Ladders is still serving in Stamford, Ct with the Belltown Vol dept.

  Canterbury, Ct has a Mack TL that formerly was Hartfords Ladder 3. It served during the busiest years for the HFD.

  Chesea, Mass may still have a rehabbed FDNY Mack TL.

  Providence, RI had two former FDNY Mack TLs as Ladders 1 and 2, their busiest, up until a few years ago.

  Some of these rigs almost 40 years old.
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guitarman314 said:
mack said:
Engine - 1938 Ahrens Fox

Engine 327 had one when active with E 246 in Sheepshead Bay.



http://nyfd.com/calderoneA/foxes2.html
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  Literally "built like a tank", also known as the "Rolls Royce" of fire engines. The downside was that they were hard to steer around crowded and narrow city streets.
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Yeh, Sharp-Looking, had a History of being Reliable as hell, & look like they must've been a Nightmare to drive thru the streets of NYC !
 
My dad had one assigned to his house and said they were miserable to drive around Manhattan. I would surmise they were lousy to drive anywhere.
 
  Engine 65 had the most (5) Ahrens-Fox pumpers, they were: (#1) 1915 MK-2 750gpm (shop #804) that was originally assigned to E19; (#2) 1927 HP-2 1000gpm (shop #744); (#3) 1933 AHP 1000gpm (shop #4003); (#4) 1938 Ahrens-Fox (shop#3432) that was later ressigned to E328 in 1947 when E65 received a '47 Mack L; (#5) 1938 HT 1000gpm (Shop #3423) originally from World's Fair then reassigned to E41 but couldn't get in or out of that firehouse so it went to E71. E65 swapped their 1947 Mack L with E71 for the '38 Ahrens Fox.
 
1. 1954 Mack L (though the 1937 Mack is a close second)
2. 1960 ALF 900 tied with Seagrave TDA of same era
3. Mack L Rescue 1
4. Fire Fighter tied with the '37 Ward LaFrance Searchlights
 
Interesting choices, 811, although certainly not mine. As a kid in the nortj Bronx I NEVER saw a Mac 54 L model on the street, Although 41-2 had one for a while in the late 50's. I believe they were high rise pumpers for use just downtown in Manhattan.

Gman, E65 Was a showcase unit Due to their location in Midtown. They always got The best Of the new rigs.
 
Chelsea Ma had 2 TL's. One was a Mack/Baker, the other was a 95 FWD/Baker. Neither are on any roster, reserve is a Cambridge Ma TDA. Somerville, next to Chelsea purchased TL-44 rig, first r/w but then repainted to yellow.
 
3511 said:
Interesting choices, 811, although certainly not mine. As a kid in the nortj Bronx I NEVER saw a Mac 54 L model on the street, Although 41-2 had one for a while in the late 50's. I believe they were high rise pumpers for use just downtown in Manhattan.

Gman, E65 Was a showcase unit Due to their location in Midtown. They always got The best Of the new rigs.
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Yes, but E65 always managed to get Ahrens-Foxes reassigned to them. They were the last Manhattan engine to be assigned an open cab 1954 Mack and that was in 1966 when their 1965 Mack C was reassigned to the newly organized E232 in Brownsville. That "54 Mack (Shop #1099) had previously run as E10 then as E83's hosewagon.
 
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