james j neiweem

BCR Do you work for meyer? I remember reading somewhere that Dennis Sporlein was a maintenance manager there. Did you know him. I went to grade school with him inBuffalo Grove Ill. He had a huge left forarm from operating a manual clutch on a piece of farm machinery. I used to wait for the school bus on the corner of Dundee rd and the road that went to Mt Prospect. That was truck heaven. Meyer used to have about 6 twin screw B-613 with turbo 205's. What a sweet sounding engine. Consolidated forwarding used to go by with the white 3000 flat head gasers. Meanast sounding gas engines I ever heard. The IH red diamonds were a close second.

Vlad your English is getting better and better.

Rescue them before the South A mericans get them and beat them to death.

I agree with mark on the western R, Thought the 600's looked better than the 700's.BCR I lived in Wheeling ILL when I was a lad 50's and 60's The meyer plant used to be up the road' I wonder if it is still there.

The Marino unit has a twin. They were both painted in Portland CT about twenty years ago. The also have a giant A-car AP.

I wonder when the red and silver Werner from St Paul/Chicago went belly up. It is strange that both Werners used the arrow logo.

Green Dash I used to see Werner trucks all the time in the 1950's commimg down through Wisconsin from St Paul Minnesota. They were the same paint scheme as the ford L-9000 and they were mostly macks (B's) with a mix of IH gasers and GMC cannonballs and crackerboxes as I remember. I am sure they were around before 1956. You may have been talking about an earlier ford but that L-9000 didn't come about until the 70's as I recall.

Storkmack. Seems to be a paccar plague.

O&G bought out Rawson. That explains there switch to Paccar. Old Rawson Macks are still running around Ct in the Waterford area. They bought a few Granites before the KW's.

Don't think national freight has had a Mack since the U and F's. Maybee some cruiseliners.

Halamores latest heavy haul is KW paccar. They were Mack forever. I think they got the KW before the Titan came out.

I remember Roncari had several B-61 single axle tractors that hauled material out of the East Granby Quarry (Now Tilcon), Not sure if they had R models or DM's. I know they went cheap towards the end with ford L model dumps.

Slippery white stuff/mud/logs-Seems like your best bet is an all Mack drive train. Good for pulling out stuck paccars also.

Are there still a lor of R models running around the Chicago area. They are pretty much gone in the east. I am guessing there are more R models still running in the Chicago area than any where else in the country. BCR- Sure would be nice to see pictures of those Celli Macks. When I was a kid in wheeling Illinois I would wait for the bus at an intersection. This intersection was truck heaven. Celli Macks, Meyer Macks and FWD's, Dundee sand and gravel Hendricksons, Crystal Lake Hendricksons, Bongi Macks. One of the Crystal lake Hendricksons had the wierdest sounding engine. Later found out it was a 2 cycle Harnishfegger. I am guessing that intersection made me the Mack nut that I am today.

BCR Somewhere on this site there is mention of Gene Celli still showing up for work everyday. Also there was indication that there were still Celli Visions or Pinnacles hauling dry cement.

Celli ruled in the day. B Models R Models and CHs Not sure if they ran LJ's or superliners Great paint scheme.

Nothing looks better than a B model dump. Bring back the B model.

EM6285. Great photos of new Macks. To bad they can't take the Titan hood and replace it with the Austrailian Superliner or Trident

That F700 would make a great Smith transfer/overnitre/or Jones recreation .

What happened to is volvo good or bad for Mack. I guess that topic got beat to death. I see that Volvo is going to try to get more involved with the construction segment. Not good. If they had half a brain they would bring back the ACar. I wonder if they sold the rights to Acar or just the refuse segment. If they sold the rights then why doesn't Autocar get into the construction market. Mack and Autocar old time nostalgia

Just speculation. The C model came out in 64-65. The last B model was in 66. U's started in 65 and r's 66. Sounds like theC model was a chance to use up the last of the L cabs and B fronts.

If you go to the Copar site they talk about their enviornmentally friendly SCR Macks. They also state that they do use the ferry from LI to CT I guess. They just opened a pit in CT.

O&G went Kenworth and tilcon Kenworth. Some good dump news in CT RI. Copar bought about 15 new Granite axle forwards.

Will he be back? Can't see why he left. Hope he stops in from time to time.

Tilcon another former Mack fleet gone to Paccar altough they still have a few Macks kicking around.