FR Chicago FD 1954 FWD 85' TDA

[gafireman]

Picked up mine at the local post office last week, another outstanding piece! Hope they continue to produce a couple of vintage rigs a year. FR did a great job of replicating the look of Wood ladders, both aerial and ground. One minor detail. I believe the aerial extension - retraction cables were steel. On the model the cable is black thread. All in all, a great piece! I wish they would make the display cases a little smaller, they take up a lot of shelf space, I need to build some more.

[JoeO]

Picked up mine at the local post office last week, another outstanding piece! Hope they continue to produce a couple of vintage rigs a year. FR did a great job of replicating the look of Wood ladders, both aerial and ground. One minor detail. I believe the aerial extension - retraction cables were steel. On the model the cable is black thread. All in all, a great piece! I wish they would make the display cases a little smaller, they take up a lot of shelf space, I need to build some more.

I got mine as well. The cables are made with string since it's the closet thing they can use to match a cable in the scale, same thing was used on the 70's Seagrave ladder's. I was impressed with the handrails on the main ladder that was metal as were the eyelets. I am going to be changing the number on mine to 21 which was the truck near the house i lived in growing up and they had this model.

I do agree about the size of the cases.

Yes we will see lots of vintage this year again

[rastuman]

Website shows only 11 remain of the 300 produced. Of the hundreds of models in my collection, this is the centerpiece. Grab one while you still can.