Terry T

It's been a while so I'm not completely sure but in 1999 I was selling Mack trucks and I believe that during 1999 the E9 became unavailable for the 2000 model year in the US & Canada. I think it might have lived on for another year or so down under and in marine applications.

On 10/31/2021 at 8:17 AM, mrsmackpaul said:

Another Australian truck movie but sort of the reverse of Duel is "Road Games" 

Fast benz chasing a van across Australia 

Has some once big time Yanky actors in it

 

Paul 

 

Stacy Keach & Jamie Lee Curtis were in it. I watched it a couple times some 30+ years ago.

11 hours ago, Freightrain said:

Last month the Cuyahoga Valley brought the Nickel Plate 765 over from Indiana and used it for their excursion for a couple weekends.  We rode it, they dump you off and do a couple fly bys for video and pictures.  I have them on my phone, I need to get them over to youtube so others can enjoy it.  It just sends chills down my spine.  I'd really like to get to see a Big Boy in person someday.  I really enjoyed the restoration videos that UP put up.  I couldn't imagine what it took to do that locomotive.  No different then what worked on actually.

I was going to mention that 765 was in your neighborhood not so long ago.  It resides in New Haven, IN which is my neighborhood.  When we had our freight terminal in Ft Wayne, during excursion season, it would regularly run right past our front door as the office of our building faced the tracks and was only about 120' from them & the Lumbard St crossing was just 300-350 feet away. You could feel her before you heard her then you could smell her for quite sometime after she was gone!

Mike doesn't get on this page very often anymore because of computer issues. He is on the BMT FB page though.

14 hours ago, General Ike said:

Is that R model pumper a gasser?

It's a diesel.  I read the info card on it but all I remember is that it's a 1000GPM pump & 1000 gal tank and that it is a 1981 model and is still in active service @ Morning Sun, IA.

7 hours ago, Freightrain said:

I do have plans for that Saturday.  Interesting thought on the trip though.

I'm coming through your place Monday going to/from Goshen.  I'm coming across 30 and up 33. Won't have time to stop this time as it is a one day dash and I'll have an employee with me.

No problem, I'll probably be at work anyway. There is a small construction zone between 30 & Churubusco on 33. It's just a couple miles north of 30. You have to do a little zig, a zag and then another zig. Just be aware of it, traffic moves through it good. At night when I go through it I slow down to about 50ish....

7 hours ago, Freightrain said:

Pretty sure I have the right address, since I bought those hood emblems a couple years back.

Any interest in driving over there?  I'm kicking around the idea of heading over the evening before, grab a room around Davenport and heading down in the a.m. then driving back in the evening. Meet at my place & take my Chevy! If I get the roof fixed on my camper before that we can drag it over and camp in his front yard!

I don't know what's up with Mike, I just text him but Mikey (Mike's son) has this going on. As I hear more I'll update unless any of you have been in touch with him. The last time I visited with Mike he still had the 4X4 UPS Ultraliner at his place...

On 6/25/2021 at 4:30 PM, SkippyMack said:

Friends,

Bumper and wheels are painted.  Hoping to have this old girl rolling in the next week or so!

4969 is "Skippy" on this original chassis order courtesy of the Mack Museum!  She has a sibling (chassis #4968) who also went to Rimarg Bros Trucking Co. of Rutland VT on July 27, 1956.  I wonder where that truck is? 

https://sjcreativevt.pixieset.com/skippymack/

 

The only B60T in the 4900's is "B60T 4927 ’56 Doug Stackhouse New York" & "B60T 4961 Bob Frazier 24 Rex Road Washington, PA 15301 724-225-1571" that have been added to the B Model Registry so far.  You need to add yours as well!

14 hours ago, Louis Quindlen said:

 We also built the two lead trucks for the movie Convoy, Rubber Duck and Pigpen call signs, played by Kris Kristofferson and another actor I can’t recall. 

That actor was Burt Young.

I don't know but I believe at some point in time I was in a conversation about it and I believe it's a 350 but I don't recall any other info.

I wonder if it started out life as a GMC Motorhome...

It was no problem. Thanks for the reports everyone. That made it easy to find all of the names it used and get them blocked right away.

First I got it in my right big toe in my mid 20's. Put me on crutches. Had to build a "fort" around my foot with pillows because even a bed sheet touching it caused the most incredible pain. I had about 3 major flare-ups there. then about 7 years ago I got it in my left ankle, crutches again now I fight with it in both big toes & both ankles. Allopurinol on a daily basis and I keep a bottle of Indocin in the bathroom cabinet incase of a flare-up. The Indocin has always knocked the crap out of it rapidly for me. I try to drink a glass of cranberry juice every day. Basically now if I feel THAT ache I pop 3 Indocin right away and just really pay attention to it and take some Indocin as needed but usually, as long as I don't screw around with it, the Indocin stops it quickly.

I remember it. I was 12. Those were the days before everyone had a 4X4 and a snow blower.  We lived on a 3 block long dead end street. All the neighbors pitched in and we had ourselves dug out to the "traveled rd" on the 2nd day but it was another day before the city got that road opened up. The blizzard was the worst single storm of my lifetime to date.  However the winter of 81/82 was terrible for Fort Wayne as we got so much snow over the winter the city trucked it to parks near our 3 different rivers then when it all began melting... the city was flooded. I believe 1/3rd of Ft Wayne, IN went under water. I was a sophomore in h.s. and city schools were closed so the students could fill and place sandbags we did this for days, non-stop.  President Reagan flew in and even tossed a few sand bags. One of the news agencies deemed Ft Wayne as "the city that saved itself".

A different thought occurred to me Saturday evening while chatting with my neighbors. If Biden stays in office for two years & 1 day and is then removed and Harris is sworn in as POTUS she can then serve out the balance of the Biden term and run two more times and considering what we seen in the 2020 election it isn't hard for me to believe that she could be "elected" to two terms giving her 10 years in the White House.

Dang!!! I have A & B. Maybe I should put them on Ebay starting at a grand!