Pictures of the Week

[other dog 9,042]

I saw a neat looking triple-double decker bus going north on I-81 in Pa. this week.

 

 

I saw a girl in a car going north on I-81 in Pa. this week.

 

She gets two pictures-

 

I saw mountains-

 

...and tunnels-

 

I picked up some steel in Morrisville, Pa. Had a little damage on the corners there-

 

Then I saw another girl in another car.

 

[other dog 9,042]

Then I saw the shipyard in Philadelphia.

 

 

 

And then, believe it or not, I saw another girl in another car!

 

And yep, another girl in another car-

 

Saw a cabover White pulling a log trailer.

 

Deer crossing the road.

 

A g- never mind, it's pretty self-explanatory.

 

[hatcity 2,380]

nice scenery up that-a-way

how did your home area make out with the rain?

[other dog 9,042]

A girl- in a car.

 

After I went to Mountain Top, Pa. with a load of pipes, then to Morrisville, then to Richmond, I went to the shop and got a van and went up to B&W and picked up a load of scrap stuff going to McKeesport,Pa. I was sitting over here backed up to the dock getting unloaded, observing the trucks on the outbound scales. The truck on the scales before this truck was over gross, so this loader came over and took a big chunk of metal off and dropped it in this pile. Then this truck must have been too light, because the loader man picked up the same piece he'd taken off the first truck and put it on this one.

 

I went from McKeesport to Dillwyn, Va. empty to get a load of Kyanite going to Sanford,N.C. I stopped at the service plaza on the turnpike to get a sammich and pulled in beside this Quickway driver stretched out in his sleeper snoozing.

 

One rock truck going up, two rock trucks coming down. They must go in the same clockwise direction for safety reasons- pretty good idea, that hill side is probably steeper than it looks in the picture, and it looks pretty steep!

 

 

 

 

I was trying to figure out what kind of truck this is...I just don't know.

 

 

[david wild 2,067]

Freightliner

[other dog 9,042]

Oh, I even saw a big Mack truck in Harrisonburg.

 

And yet another girl in another car in N.C.

 

 I saw Bobby Moore's Transtar in Concord, turning onto 460 off of rt. 24. This was an absolute top of the line tractor when it was new in the late 70's. 400 Cummins, 13 speed, Eagle package, it was owned by Montague-Betts Steel and Bobby Moore drove it. When Montague-Betts got rid of their trucks- they had about 4 IH's and a couple of Brockway cabovers- Bobby Moore bought this truck from them. He had driven it since Montague-Betts bought it new.

They had another Eagle just like it except it was brown, tan, and white. H.H. Moore bought that one, and hired the same guy that drove it for Montague-Betts and he drove it for H.H.Moore until H.H. traded it.

 

 

Bud sale- buy 2 twelve packs, get the third twelve pack for one cent!..yes, one cent! I wasn't too hoggish, I only got 6 twelve packs, but I do know someone who got 60!

 

 

[other dog 9,042]

43 minutes ago, hatcity said:

nice scenery up that-a-way

how did your home area make out with the rain?

Nothing out of the ordinary around here, but they caught hell over in West Virginia though. I came across the turnpike to Breezewood and down when I left McKeesport the other day to get to Dillwyn as quickly as possible. Normally I would have taken I-79 to rt.19 to Summersville, then rt.39 to Nettie, and rt.20 to rt.60 at Charmco. It's a good thing I didn't go that way, or I might still be over there somewhere. I've got to leave early tomorrow and deadhead to Chicago with a stretch trailer and pick up another long load at Atlas Tube going to Petersburg, Va. Got a 7am appointment time to load Monday morning.

[1958 F.W.D. 3,728]

I was a Civilian Firefighter at the US Navy FD at the Phila Naval Shipyard FD a ways back when I was young and when that yard was FULL of inactive ships in the mothball fleet. Not too long after the PNSY shut down (after they finished up the overhaul of the carrier USS John F Kennedy) the Fire Dept was downsized and I was sent down to the Aberdeen Proving Ground FD. I used to love working at the PNSY FD and still go down there once in a while to visit the guys. You can't see it in the pics, but the USS JFK (which is now inactive) is tied up at Pier 3 over on the Delaware River. The Bridge that you cross when on I-95 is actually going over the Schuykill River about 500 yards north of where the Schuykill meets the Delaware River. We used to have a small fireboat which I was qualified to pilot, and I knew all those waters like the back of my hand. Was fun times back then. 

[Underdog 1,404]

Nice to see familiar places in the pictures of the week. I don't get away from the I-95 corridor much anymore, glad you could come up our way and visit. I also recognized ELG in McKeesport, took many scrap loads there when I was dump-truckin'. Don't miss that place all that much, used to park there to sleep overnight, if not you could be waiting in line until noon. I would stage my truck in line, then walk up the hill to a neat little bar & grill to eat supper. Been at least 4 years ago, but they had 40 cent Iron City draughts during the week.

[other dog 9,042]

2 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Nice to see familiar places in the pictures of the week. I don't get away from the I-95 corridor much anymore, glad you could come up our way and visit. I also recognized ELG in McKeesport, took many scrap loads there when I was dump-truckin'. Don't miss that place all that much, used to park there to sleep overnight, if not you could be waiting in line until noon. I would stage my truck in line, then walk up the hill to a neat little bar & grill to eat supper. Been at least 4 years ago, but they had 40 cent Iron City draughts during the week.

Wow, thanks for the info! I only go there about twice a year, but they're good paying loads out of B&W- the loads pay both ways, that's why I could deadhead back to Dillwyn to pick up the Sanford load.

[other dog 9,042]

Just now, other dog said:

Wow, thanks for the info! I only go there about twice a year, but they're good paying loads out of B&W- the loads pay both ways, that's why I could deadhead back to Dillwyn to pick up the Sanford load.

Oh, by the way, i've never tried Iron City beer. I've heard people say it was horrible, some people said it was great, some said IC light was good but regular IC was horrible, and vice-versa- what's your opinion?

[1958 F.W.D. 3,728]

Oh, by the way.....you are required to obtain a permit to enter the Philly area, has to be signed by myself or 39babymack at the diner of our choosing.........

[other dog 9,042]

28 minutes ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

Oh, by the way.....you are required to obtain a permit to enter the Philly area, has to be signed by myself or 39babymack at the diner of our choosing.........

Oh no, I just got a memo stating that I could come and go as I pleased, signed by Underdog, Greendash, 39babymack, and Mowerman. They said it super-seeds any previous b.s. documents that might have been issued by 1958F.W.D.

[41chevy 10,259]

33 minutes ago, other dog said:

Oh no, I just got a memo stating that I could come and go as I pleased, signed by Underdog, Greendash, 39babymack, and Mowerman. They said it super-seeds any previous b.s. documents that might have been issued by 1958F.W.D.

Did you get a official Fork Union, VA permit signed by Kaycee, Beaurgarde and Booker the Basset Hounds to allow you to get a permit signed by Underdog, Greendash, 39babymack, and Mowerman ?

[keg1 491]

I recognized ELG to. Was only there once with a load of turnings on the dump. I was there quite awhile I remember.

[1958 F.W.D. 3,728]

53 minutes ago, other dog said:

Oh no, I just got a memo stating that I could come and go as I pleased, signed by Underdog, Greendash, 39babymack, and Mowerman. They said it super-seeds any previous b.s. documents that might have been issued by 1958F.W.D.

Did you read the fine print where it says that is only valid on leap day? 

[BC Mack 795]

other dog

the bus you saw is from these guys.... http://twelvetribes.org/peacemaker-bus

it is a former Greyhound Scenicruiser with the roof of an Aerocoach grafted on...

BC Mack

[other dog 9,042]

32 minutes ago, 41chevy said:

Did you get a official Fork Union, VA permit signed by Kaycee, Beaurgarde and Booker the Basset Hounds to allow you to get a permit signed by Underdog, Greendash, 39babymack, and Mowerman ?

Well, nobody told me I had to do all that!.. But I do know a dignitary in Fork Union, or who will soon be in Fork Union, who's authority overrides all the previous wannabe dignitaries mentioned who thought they had some authority to authorize some things that may or may not have needed to be authorized in the first place to do things that might have needed authorization by an authority to be done.

[Underdog 1,404]

I remember Dillwyn, as well. Nice ride, beautiful country, but I picked up a bulk load of pyrite in my aluminum dump trailer, it stuck so bad it took me 3 days of hard labor to get it out. I can laugh about it now, good trucker story, but wasn't much fun at the time.

[Underdog 1,404]

Oh, by the way, i've never tried Iron City beer. I've heard people say it was horrible, some people said it was great, some said IC light was good but regular IC was horrible, and vice-versa- what's your opinion?

Each and every IC that I drank was worth AT LEAST the 40 cents I paid.

[Underdog 1,404]

Oh no, I just got a memo stating that I could come and go as I pleased, signed by Underdog, Greendash, 39babymack, and Mowerman. They said it super-seeds any previous b.s. documents that might have been issued by 1958F.W.D.

Just bring beer I'll sign anything you want. It won't be an issue until one of us runs for public office.

[carlotpilot 1,479]

2 hours ago, BC Mack said:

other dog

the bus you saw is from these guys.... http://twelvetribes.org/peacemaker-bus

it is a former Greyhound Scenicruiser with the roof of an Aerocoach grafted on...

BC Mack

very interesting article  thanks for posting

[Brian Blaylock 80]

Is it just my eyes or does it look like the girl with the black and white skirt have some extra parts looking out from under her skirt

[terry 526]

1 hour ago, Brian Blaylock said:

Is it just my eyes or does it look like the girl with the black and white skirt have some extra parts looking out from under her skirt

Looks like she has her left leg bent up with big toe sticking up.

[mowerman 2,192]

excellent tom thanks ...bob