Not stock exhausts but beautiful anyway.

Hmmm, would I go see Richard Petty? A true American hero and as friendly as they come? Or gropey joe...an embarrassment to our great country? Let's see...I've already met Richard and talked with him and it really would be a hoot to whip old gropey the bird as he so soundly deserves!!

The past couple of years we've had some lower numbers at the fire station but still numbering in the hundreds. Hopefully next year we'll have put the china virus behind us and can have a really good year. Three years ago we had over five hundred come through and bear in mind that our little town is less than five thousand strong.

I presume that I am one of the relatively few people that has actually been in the viaduct. I opened the hatch ( on the right hand side underneath ) and climbed in shortly before it opened and saw that someone had built a campfire inside. I didn't have a flashlight and it was pitch dark in there so I didn't walk the entire length but it was fascinating and now when I see a photo of it I know what it looks like inside and out.

Jerryc...the letter cars were awesome and I understand that the New Jersey highway patrol used some of them on their interstates. I had a 1957 Chrysler New Yorker with the 413 engine and it would scare you.

There was also just something wild about the unsilenced air filter on the 440 Mopars. I could be outside and hear one of the Sheriff's deputies heading out on a call and that four barrel would just moan...I could hear it on Youngs Road from about three miles away on a quiet night. Speaking of sounds...I had a young man that worked for me and he had a Z-1 Kawasaki and I heard him cross the Pennsylvania Ave. bridge early one morning and that's an even four miles from my house. Course that was way back when I could still hear!! Police cars today sound like overwinding four cylinders but our fire engines still have a very distinctive sound.

Photos are great but the Tower in real life is just incredibly awesome.

TriX...yeah, you left out the 340 engined Mopars. I have a time slip from Kinston, N.C., dragstrip for 14 flat on street tires and through the mufflers! Geez, those were fun days. The Darts and Barracudas were also operating on a 51/49 weight distribution so they would corner with ease while hauling butt on the straights.

What a beautiful 396!! They were exceedingly fast cars and would either win or lose to my 1968 Barracuda 340 Formula S by inches...and I freely admit that I beat most of them because they couldn't keep from smoking the tires off the line.

I heard on the radio that in Kalifornia this morning those were the prices.

I realize a mood was what he was getting in the shot. I simply want to see the details from a climber's perspective...what a fabulous adventure it would be to take a shot from the top.

I would love to see that same picture in bright light so I could actually make out some of the features.

Re-kindles are rarely because the fire department didn't put the fire out...usually it's because of a secondary factor. The batteries in electric cars are not considered out until they have been doused for over an hour and then the wrecker operator is still supposed to park the car separate from combustibles or other cars. Nasty little buggers and I personally don't intend to ever own an electric vehicle.

I've been doing fire photography for almost thirty five years and I use a Sony A77 with an 18-250 lens. I agree that out West this would probably be way too small for you but on the East coast it has proven to be ideal. As I'm also a firefighter I frequently hand off my camera to someone to continue taking pictures while I pull line or go to refill a tanker. Makes life interesting. I wish you the best of luck and stay behind the hot stuff.

It's a cutting tool for your kitchen.