The Power Museum...Big Truck

Within the The Antique Power Museum is one building for "big boy" toys. This is my favorite because for three months in Reno I drove 

a KW (Kenworth) truck.

Here is Ford's first ever cab over engine truck. A 1938 2 ton, short truck for congested cities and $895 new...wow.

The earlier trucks had two shifters. They were called 3 by 4's, 4 by 6's or 5 by 6's, meaning the driver had 10 to 15 gears to choose from but had to use both shifters to configure the gear he wanted. Trucks nowadays have electric splitters with only one stick shifter.

This here is a 1959, 1090 cubic inch Oshkosh Snow Plow that was used to clear the snow off Fairchild Air Base near Spokane for the B-52's

It's debatable whether the swan on KW trucks was an option or aftermarket.

But either way, if you are going to get one...GET one that lights up!

1949 "primo" Kenworth.

1948 (a very good year) International logging truck. One of the early loggers, you may not be able to tell from photo, but the truck is not that large.

The Freightliner story starts in 1930 near Portland, Oregon as a company called Freightways. Freightways and 5 other freight companies joined forces to form Freightliner Trucks that were lighter than most of the long haul trucks of the day. Today the company is known as Daimler Trucks North America. Daimler is of course Mercedes Benz.

This is a 1948 F3 Ford Utility Truck. This truck was soon retired when "hydraulic" utility trucks came to be...as you might notice, all the equipment here is hand crank powered.

1930 Fageol Flatbed is a beautiful looking truck. What the heck is a Fageol?  Fageol was an important bus and truck manufacturer that went into receivership in the early 30's. In 1938-9 Peterman bought the company, lock, stock and barrel, the trucks are now known as Peterbilt Trucks.

I did not count them but was told that there are 1006 wrenches with no two being the same.

There were two of these Freightliner "mini" trucks, that while fully functional (6 cylinder diesel engines) and highway legal, are used mostly promotional gigs nowadays.