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Fire Truck World invites visitors to submit their photo images of vintage fire apparatus to share with other firetruck enthusiasts. Your photo images are greatly appreciated and will be enjoyed by the many visitors to Fire Truck World. No photo images in FTW are for sale. This site is strictly for fire truck enthusiasts and for reference purposes. The goal is to maintain a gallery filled with photo images of historic fire trucks and vintage firefighting equipment that is easily accessible to everyone who loves old fire trucks.
Each fire truck has its own individual page, and all submitted photo images are credited to the contributing photographer. When submitting photo images, please include as much info as possible to add to its description.
Please consider submitting photo images of your local Firehouse as well. Firehouses have long been the pride of towns and communities, and here is an opportunity to honor them.
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About the Gallery's Photo ImagesThe collection of firefighting photo images in this gallery dates back to 1985. All images taken prior to the year 2000 were taken and stored on actual 35mm film. Unless a transparent slide, most exposures had been made into 4X6 prints. This large collection of travel photos, comprised of 35 mm film, slides, and prints then sat for 25 years in a backyard shed in the harsh climate of the northeastern United States. For the most part, they survived but suffered a noticeable loss of clarity. When this fire-fighting collection first began, had I known that someday they would be the base for a website dedicated to vintage fire trucks, I would have taken more detailed photos of each truck. However, for the first 15 years of chasing fire trucks, the idea of the internet and websites was still considered science fiction. |
When scanning these photo images mold had attacked the slides, many prints were stuck together, and the emulsion on most of the negatives had suffered considerably. Thanks to Photoshop, many photo images were recoverable; without it, Fire Truck World would never have been created.
Photo images taken after the year 2000, were all shot with a digital camera and no longer needed to be scanned or rescued by Photoshop. The difference between the scanned 35 mm and the digital images is quite noticeable.
Much of this fire apparatus was stored in dark, dusty, nooks and crannies and was a challenge to photograph. Some vehicles hadn't seen the light of day for decades, resulting in poor-quality images that are displayed for nostalgic reasons only.
(Unless credited to a contributing photographer, all photographs in FTW were taken by Millard Farmer)
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About the PhotographerEarly in the 1980s, the creation of the off-road bicycle tire gave birth to the Mountain Bike. Leaving the business world behind, I left Costa Rica and flew to California to build a mountain bike at Cook Bros. Racing, a pioneer in this new industry. Arriving in Thailand with a new custom-made mountain bike and no actual plan, every road led to adventure. Equipped with a brand new camera, the hunt for photographic opportunities became my prime objective and vintage fire trucks turned into a favorite subject, stopping at nearly every firehouse along the way. Beginning in Southeast Asia in 1985 and terminating back in Costa Rica in 1994, this bicycle adventure endured an entire decade crossing four continents. |
Setting the bicycle aside for eleven months, I hiked China's Great Wall from end to end. Finding no one willing to join me, I ended up hiking it alone, taking three consecutive summers to complete the mission. This trek has been made into a book that includes being arrested five times, plenty of hardships, and triumphs too, plus heaps of photographs from sections of the Great Wall that hadn't been visited by man in nearly four centuries.
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Seeking more excitement, I biked through two of the remaining headhunter regions of the world: one in the Philippines and the other being Papua New Guinea. Photo images of these two journeys can be found on EarthlyPhotos.com.
Nearly forty years have passed since that bike journey first began. Although that well-traveled mountain bike now collects dust in a corner of the same backyard shed that once harbored the journey's aging photographs, I haven't given up on chasing fire trucks, nor my other great passion: photographing America's surviving historical wooden covered bridges.
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