{"id":3104,"date":"2018-03-10T08:24:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2019-08-07T19:34:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T23:34:47","slug":"raleighs-old-truck-16-found-in-wilmington-scrapyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/raleighs-old-truck-16-found-in-wilmington-scrapyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh&#8217;s Old Truck 16 Found&#8230; in Wilmington Scrapyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recognize this one? That&#8217;s Raleigh&#8217;s longtime Truck 16, a 1995 Simon-Duplex\/LTI aerial platform that the city recently sold as surplus. Was found this week in Wilmington by reader Tim Henshaw. Click to slightly enlarge:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3105\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"2018-03-10-rfd-tower-1\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-1-730x548.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3106\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"2018-03-10-rfd-tower-2\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-2-730x548.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3107\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"2018-03-10-rfd-tower-3\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018-03-10-rfd-tower-3-730x548.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><br \/> Tim Henshaw photos<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the rig in its glory days, as photographed by Lee Wilson:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/gallery\/apparatus\/aerials\/rfd-1995-simon-platform-lw.jpg\" \/><br \/>Lee Wilson photo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/raleigh\/apparatus\/aerials\/aerial-1995-simon.shtml\">Read more rig history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" 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