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Vlad On the Mississippi River, north of St Louis where the locks start, They run the barges in a 3 wide and 5 long configuration. The lock only holds a 3X3 block, so after they get the front in the chamber they unhook that block, let it down and winch them out to tie them off to the side , then go back and let the last 6 and the tug boat down. The tug then actually turns and hooks the front three back on while still in the lock. Massive Power!! You can actually feel the vibrations from the engines and props thru your feet as you stand behind the fence.. Sometimes it takes a while as there is another set going in the opposite direction doing the same. If you ever get back to the States again put it on your bucket list. Have never searched U Tube?

Looks like it might have been a paperwork / permit holder??

Vlad That string of barges is probably not easy, BUT those guys are real experienced professionals. And Amazing!! The locks only have about 4 to 6 inches of clearance on each side.. Gotta be square before you start in!! The city park in Gutenberg Iowa even has some bleachers behind the fence so you can watch them go thru the locks there. I spent about 2 hours there one afternoon while my wife explored the "JUNK" shops across US 52 from the park.

My 1959 Diamond T 921C is like that.. Aluminum cab, steel doors, and a fiberglass roof.

Paul, Thanks for all your pictures of the countryside.. Keep them coming!!! You can do the Aussie version of Other Dog's travel reports.. Here is a link to a lot of pictures, and some BS, from the 2015 ATHS tour to the Truckie's Hall of Fame Reunion. Both trucks and countryside.. I am assuming that Stephanie will put together a good similar mix for the future trips she is planning. http://forums.justoldtrucks.com/84264/Down-Under-Trip?Keywords=Down Under Trip

Snowdog and others: Start saving your pennies!!! Stephanie Anton is working on tours for both the "Haulin of the Hume" in 2019 and Truckie's Reunion in Alice Springs in 2020. I will post the info in a separate topic when it becomes available.

After Erv Bickford's passing, Daryl told me he bought 150 trucks from the estate.. I can see where he is having storage problems!!!

My garage got plumbed for sink, toilet, and shower into a dry well out in the adjacent cow pasture before I poured the floor, BUT I have never finished the whole interior of the shop, so I just go out to the pasture fence!!!

ALso try Tom Warren in Amarillo TX 806-374-3056. He bought the old DiamondT Rubber company from the guy in Ohio and is making other stuff now.

Tom We enjoy your pictures very much.. How did you get that far west to Kansas?? Thank you for taking the time out of your "Honey Do" list to share them with us.

I saw somewhere that the Wellington Mack Brought $300k, BUT I do NOT believe it???

Seed Thanks for the explanation.. The inventions necessary to drive on the WRONG side of the road!!!

Swishy In your picture of the drivers side foot well, it shows the steering shaft coming straight down thru the floor real near the clutch peddle.. It looks like it would be in the way of your left foot both getting on the clutch or resting on the floor??? My mate says on his American F model the steering shaft continues the line of the steering wheel and goes thru the floor a lot closer to the front of the foot well. Was this an Aussie thing???? Or a difference in the Fiberglass cab???

Happy Birthday at the Kilt!!!

Charlie That town just south of Rochester was Restoff NY. It and South Lansing NY, just north of Ithaca, were (and maybe still are) the largest producers of Rock Salt in the northeast. I know that the Cayuga Rock Salt mine went over 3000 feet BELOW Cayuga Lake.

I finally remembered to town name for one of them: Nicholson PA We came up that way last year on our way to the Brockway Weekend in Cortland NY.

I saw it at Gerharts about 5 years ago.. Neat Truck

On old US 11 between Scranton PA and Binghamton NY are two very high and long concrete railroad bridges across the valley which date back to about 1915.

I came from Upstate New York and as a kid they were bathtubs also.

Your Baaack!!!! Thanks for the pictorial update, I was beginning to think one of the Windfall girls had kidnapped you??? Time to start running south until March!!!

Back in the early 80's, when I lived in NE PA, both the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts (Had one child in each) were sponsored by the local Lutheran Church. Scoutmaster was exmilitary and he arranged food and housing at Andrews AFB for both troops to tour DC. The Girl Scout office in Scranton pitched a hissy fit because the boys and girls were going together and denied the girls the "camping" monies the girls had earned selling cookies as the girls were NOT going to the campsite the Girl Scout council owned. One month later there were no Girl Scouts and both the girls and boys were Campfire and they all enjoyed and learned from the DC tour.

That dinky little nose plow does not match the rest of the truck..Needs a big ole 10-12 foot V on it!!!

How is Vinny doing?? We have not heard much from him lately.

This is how it looked at Lititiz in 2013

They Did!!! It is a Blue Bird bus.. was at Gerhart's a few years ago.