Come to think of it, there's a practical gold mine waiting for some die-cast company to make detail replicas of horse-drawn rigs.

Say 1:64, or maybe 1:50.

Do a series of the following, and they'd sell like gangbusters:

Hose wagon
Steamer
Service ladder truck
Aerial ladder truck
Water tower

mjl

Mike, I agree. I've said for a long time that if someone were to release a set similar to what Marlin Toy/Revell did back in the 1950's with their American Firefighter series it would be very popular. Not only for having them as a horse drawn rig, but for kit bashing into a motorized rig. Look how many cities had converted water towers well into the 1970's. Baltimore even had some converted second line wooden hayes aerials as late as 1976.

Let's get the FDNY groupies to cry for them.

We know that anything and everything that says FDNY sells well.