Photo Gallery Books

Cherry-pickers were a good way for firemen to get to places that traditional aerial ladders weren't able to reach. This led to the revolutionary elevating platform, or "Snorkel", as they were referred...

On average, over 163 million net tons of cargo are moved each year on the Great Lakes in the holds of a vast fleet of steel ships. The photographs in this book...

Factory and on-scene photos help examine the evolution of rescue vehicles and their lifesaving equipment....

This exciting look at U.S. Navy and Marine Corps fire apparatus illustrates and explains the firefighting equipment used at shore installations worldwide from the turn of the century to present. Rare and...

Robert Gilmour LeTourneau is considered by many to be the dean of high-speed mobile earthmoving equipment. His designs of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s revolutionized the earthmoving industry. During the 1950s and...

In the early days of commercial navigation on the waterways of the Great Lakes, specialized tugboats were developed to guide the ships in and out of the many narrow ports. As...

The Golden Age of snowmobile manufacturing ran from 1968 to 1976 with a gradual slow down leading to 1982. During this time literally hundreds of snowmobile manufacturers sprung up and then disappeared....

The rugged equipment used to fight wildland fires, brush rigs, helicopters, military vehicles and more....