Nostalgia & History > Ocean Shore RR , Daly City, Ca., '82, '57

# 1:
Off the Daly City bluffs. Can you spot 2 ties? One sticking out from the light soil,
the other below laying on its side. 1982.
# 2 and 3:
Aftermath of the 1957 5.7 quake off Daly City at Thorton Beach bluffs.[Hiway 1/ OSRR ]

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That 1957 quake did lots of road damage here and by the cliff house

Cats w/o rollover protection.
Ouch.
...Lorenzo

Interesting equipment in the '57 photos: a Northwest 80D shovel; a Hough "Payloader" front end loader; a GMC tractor pulling a dump trailer; a Cat D8, with a ripper. I've never seen a picture of that vintage D8 with a ripper, before. That's back in the day when you started Cat equipment with a "pony" motor. My, how times have changed.

Edit: After looking at the close-up photo of the Northwest shovel posted in Mr. Maffei's later thread above, I'm revising the model from 80D (2 1/2 cu. yd. bucket), to a Model 6 (1 1/2 cu. yd. bucket).

Bob Callahan
Monticello, IN



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/11 05:44 by rcall31060.

Bob, is that a D8? Looks more like a late D6 or D7.

rehunn Wrote:
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> Bob, is that a D8? Looks more like a late D6 or
> D7.

It's definitely a D8. A D6, of that era, would be a lot smaller, plus it could never accommodate that size ripper (same for a D7 of that era). A D7 would have the oil bath air cleaner at the back of the engine cowling, directly in front of the operator. Notice the curvature of the engine cowling, ahead of the operator, plus the location of the oil bath air cleaner, with the "glass jar" rain cap? Dead giveaway. Definitely a D8, late 40's/early 50's vintage, I'm guessing.

Bob Callahan
Monticello, IN



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/11 05:28 by rcall31060.

rcall31060 Wrote:
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> rehunn Wrote:
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> > Bob, is that a D8? Looks more like a late D6 or
> > D7.
>
> It's definitely a D8. A D6, of that era, would be
> a lot smaller, plus it could never accommodate
> that size ripper (same for a D7 of that era). A
> D7 would have the oil bath air cleaner at the back
> of the engine cowling, directly in front of the
> operator. Notice the curvature of the engine
> cowling, ahead of the operator, plus the location
> of the oil bath air cleaner, with the "glass jar"
> rain cap? Dead giveaway. Definitely a D8, late
> 40's/early 50's vintage, I'm guessing.


Cable actuated blade too, no hydraulics here!!