Code 3 went under last year. It's a real shame, they made amazing rigs, I remember wanting to play with them, but my dad was afraid I'd break them, granted the mirrors and turret are gone from my first model.
I have a
Boston Ladder 23 (not my photo)
[story time] I lived down the street from Boston Ladder 25 and Engine 30 when I was a little kid, before I moved, and my bought models and toys that looked like the trucks we encountered. My dad bought me a Tonka Tower Ladder because it looked like
this truck. My dad and mom used to demo American La France in the Boston Area, and we called that truck "Tower Ten" because we demo'd it so much, we assumed we got it ten times, anyways, it was Boston Ladder 26 for Six months, and I wished it stayed, because it was awesome on the hill that lead up to New England Baptist. The Single Axle E-Ones sucked on that hill, that is where Capt Kelly was killed when the brakes on the
truck blew. So that's the story of Tower Ten, now residing in Elizabeth NJ. (Off topic I know, but we are in the Off Topic) So, Code 3 Made models of Boston Engine 30 and Ladder 25, I think it was after two FF, one from each truck, were killed on a call down the street from the house. So the models came out a few years later, I remember my dad brought them to the shop and put them on a desk with the clear covers off; I came into the shop one day, and I wasn't doing anything so I took some printer paper, and a new pack of colored sharpies, and made a fire scene, not the KIA incident and taped them to the clear covers, now I think, I wish I made some little FFs and hoses out of the paper too. I put the covers behind the trucks and left them there.
I also got a free Code 3, by coming back to the both after already being there at the Baltimore Fire Conversion. It was actually that collectors club ladder truck (which is the same model as BFD Ladder 23, but with a different paint job, and I think this one doesn't have the ground ladders that come out of the back like the BFD, or the other way around
, I'll look at it
)
My first Code 3 was a vol. Frieghtliner Tanker, I think it was collector club, but I'll check. That is the one with the missing the mirrors and turret.
Again, NOT my picture So, who else?
