1890s Horse-Drawn Steam Fire Engine by tennesseecowgirl

Photography • Historical • posted on Aug 24, 2008

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This old fire truck sits in an enclosed glass stucture in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The day I visited, and drove up it was empty, so I went inside the station to inquire about, and the officer I spoke to told me with a very straight face that we sold it on e-bay, and I said you are kidding and he said “ No ma’am we got 2 million for it we couldn’t turn it down” and then he broke into a big smile and said we had it out last night for the parade and the parade got rained out so we hauled it inside care to see it? Well he continued to stand there as I took some pictures, and told me some of its history, and told me they take it out twice a year, one being for the Christmas Parade and the other for the Dogwood Festival Parade, he then gave me a busines card and said if I called ahead on those days I could see how they bring the horses in and get them ready to pull the engine out. So I hope to go see that next Christmas. This one goes out to all the FireFighters out there, I am sure we must have a few in our member list. Happy Sunday.

Thank you all for your comments and views on my last photo.

Merry-Go-Round

Comments (40)

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magnus073

10:25AM | Sun, 24 August 2008

This is so cool Lynell and reminds me a bit of the one I saw at a museum in Oklahoma City. I for one love these and could look at them all day. Great presentation

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awjay

10:26AM | Sun, 24 August 2008

great piece of nostalgia.... thanks for sharing

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fredster66

10:27AM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Excellent. Very nice piece of work. :-)

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ShadowsNTime

10:58AM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Excellent capture! What a beauty that is! I look forward to seeing it with the horses! It's a terrific piece of history!

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moonrancher

11:11AM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Very cool. The next parade sounds exciting, and what a holiday card that might make, too!

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CavalierLady

11:15AM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Wonderful historical capture. The restoration must have cost a fortune. It would be neat to see this pulled by a team of horses.

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timtripp

11:21AM | Sun, 24 August 2008

excellent!

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Cytisus

11:39AM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Excellent Historic capture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Artlan59

11:50AM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Beautifully done. Fantastic POV and postwork. Excellent.

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tallpindo

1:39PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

I had a plastic model of one of these as a boy and it was definitely the most complex model I ever built bar none. So nice to see it has survived and has care.

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JeffG7BRJ

2:17PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Excellent capture Lynell, they have a similar one to this at Rochdale Fire Station, there's an open day in two weeks that I will be attending. If the weather holds out they usually fire it up for a demo, I heve one on 35mm from a few years back, hopefully I will get a digital one on the 7th Sept. Like the postwork you have done here. Superb work. Bravo!!!!!

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LudyMelltSekher

3:28PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Hello my dear friend, Precious and brilliant Phography.Impressive!! Congratulations!! All you artwork is Very Beautiful!! It is a real pleasure to visit your gallery.A million stars from me. ** Thanks you very much for you comments,they are very estimated for my. Have a wonderful Sunday,Hug and kiss in Your heart. Luminous Blessings Ludy

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busi2ness

3:36PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

I agree, you've done very well capturing this old work horse. It compares with finely made jewelery anytime.

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emmecielle

3:55PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Interesting photo! :)

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LBJ2

5:00PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Wonderful shot, Tennesse. What a magnificent piece of history. Much has happened in the last 118 years.

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jp3319

8:40PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Very cool photo!

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twistedpixel

9:16PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

A lovely shot of a vintage vehicle.

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Cgaynor

10:04PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Very well done.

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tetsu-pino

10:22PM | Sun, 24 August 2008

Fantastic capture!!!

MrsLubner

12:36AM | Mon, 25 August 2008

Stellar shot and postwork!

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Thelby

4:42AM | Mon, 25 August 2008

What a Magnificent piece of machinary that is. Easily covertable from 2 to 4 to 8 horse power and uses no carberators nor fuel injectors, but hay and a little water!!! NIce Shootin Cowgirl!!!!!

pjd1961

6:28AM | Mon, 25 August 2008

Real nice Photo. I'll have to put that on my places to visit. Thanx Lynell.

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kbatty

8:46AM | Mon, 25 August 2008

What a beautiful piece of history!

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erlandpil

11:40AM | Mon, 25 August 2008

What a beautiful piece of history! Agree erland

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debz

12:46PM | Mon, 25 August 2008

fantastic old time fire engine! Super capture!

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Art_Ramos

4:44PM | Mon, 25 August 2008

Great image! My suggestion would be to remove the title, fade the edges with sepia tones and wash out the color so that it looks like an old photograph.

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