Picture of the week 7/3/2006

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Picture of the week 7/3/2006

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Something a little different this week...a historical photo provided by "blackdog"
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A neat July 4th picture of cckws and search lights in color. Hard to tell, but think they are open cab with a wood cargo platform.
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Post by Matt »

What a great photo,so much atmosphere.

Thanks Bill and Brian!

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Class photo, I'd love a searchlight if only to call Batman when things go wrong :D
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Post by armydriver »

Now that is a classic and class photo. Thanks Bill.
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Post by blackdog »

Here's some more searchlight pictures.

Here, here, here (same one posted above but a little bit bigger), and here

The performer in the 2nd picture must have been blind at the end of the show, and in the third picture if you look hard you'll find a third open cabbed CCKW with no light on the far right.
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Thanks for the additional searchlight pictures on this July 4th, 2006.
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