PHOTOS: The Dallas Firefighter’s Museum welcomed back a key piece of North Texas history Saturday. Old Tige โ one of the first steam engine fire apparatus in Dallas โ is back on display at the East Dallas museum after undergoing extensive restoration. According to the museum, the engine was built by the Ahrens Fox Engine Company in 1884, over 141 years ago! The engine is one of only two 1884 Ahrens steamers left, per the museum. Back then, the Dallas Fire Department used horses to pull the engine to fires, a hefty task given the steamer weighs 5,700 pounds. The museum says Old Tige served Dallas from 1884 to 1921, first in Downtown Dallas as Engine 1 and then later in South Dallas as Engine 6.
