More cars from the New York State Museum

While seeing the Hungerford Rocket Car was the highlight of my recent visit to the New York State Museum, the rest of the museum offered enough exhibits and displays to capture my interest for several hours. It helped, of course, that I could ogle a few other vehicles while there.

Jim O’Clair already told us a few years back that Engine #6, which responded to the World Trade Center, formed the nucleus of the September 11 exhibit at the museum, but he neglected to inform us that right next door to that exhibit was a collection of several fire trucks of various makes and years.

For the New York City section of the museum, they had a Yellow cab – that’s Yellow as in the taxi manufacturer that GMC bought in 1925. Also encountered a Franklin (noteworthy for being manufactured in Syracuse) as well as a 1946 or 1947 Eliason Motor Toboggan Model D snowmobile, built by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company using a 45-cu.in. Indian motorcycle V-twin engine.

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