by Museum Admin | Jul 12, 2025
This apparatus has served four volunteer fire departments in the commonwealth of Virginia. It was first purchased for $28,335 by the Annandale Volunteer Fire Department in Fairfax County and served there until 1978 when it was purchased by the Middleburg Volunteer... 
by Museum Admin | Sep 15, 2020
This handsome engine was built for the fire department of South Elgin, Illinois. The model was typically armed with a two-stage centrifugal pump capable of delivering 1500-gallons of water per minute, with a tank capacity of 500-gallons, and was driven by a 350... 
by Museum Admin | Dec 10, 2019
The volunteers of Baldwin, New York put this Model 700 aerial truck into service in their Long Island town in 1955. Twenty years later they sold it to the town of Lynnfield, Massachusetts. In 2000 the town of Lynnfield donated the truck to the Hall of Flame. Its 45... 
by Museum Admin | Dec 10, 2019
The earliest motorized American fire engines, which appeared around 1910, used an engine called the T-Head: a single row of four to six pistons were cast in sets of two in the shape of a large “T”. One side of the T contained valves for the fuel intake, and the... 
by Museum Admin | Dec 10, 2019
This engine was delivered to the Volunteer Fire Department of Pullman, Washington, where it was in first line service until 1961, when it was placed out of service and sold to a retired Pullman firefighter. He used it in parades for about thirty years. It was sold...