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The Alaskan Land Train (or Overland Train) was an enormous leviathan developed by LeTourneau, a heavy-equipment maker based in Longview, Texas for the US Army in the 1950s. The vehicle was developed in order to help transport people and cargo through the demanding arctic conditions. Its massive wheels and tires, coupled with its immense power.
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October 14, 2022 site-admin The image below is the Alaska Freight Lines Sno-Freighter, built in January-February of 1955. This image is dated February-March 1955. There is a healthy post discussion about it on the… Alaska Freight Lines Book updates Books-Reading DEW Line general-history Greenland LCC-1-Sno-Train
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The tires are 88" in diameter and 38" wide. This Overland Train was purchased by Alaska Freight Lines to help resupply the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line sites. Alaska Freight Lines (AFL) was started by Alfred Ghezzi, Jr. (Al-Ghezzi), Bill Miller, Slim Delong, Tom Donahue, and Gene and Larry Rogge in March 1943. This ownership.
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UPDATE - I went to see one of these IRL! https://youtu.be/KpWv68xECrYIn the mid to late 50s and early 60s, a series of innovative and unique vehicles were te.
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site-admin. February 8, 2023. When R. G. LeTourneau, Inc. built the TC-497, it would prove to be the most ambitious Overland Train yet. The project was supervised and led by TRECOM from the Longview, TX factory grounds.
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Peter Holderith View peter holderith's Articles _baldtires You need to get 500 tons of supplies from Fairbanks, Alaska to the Arctic Ocean—a journey of about 400 miles through pure wilderness..
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The Sno-Freighter is a one-of-a-kind land vehicle designed by LeTourneau Technologies (now part of Cameron International) for Alaska Freight Lines in the 1950s. During that decade, Alaska Freight Lines won the contract to transport construction material to build the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW) in far northern Alaska and Canada.
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Happy trails! On the way to Fairbanks from Anchorage on the famed Alaska Railroad! Look at those spruce trees, and that greenery, and those clouds! It was a beautiful journey the entire way. Share
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Jour 3: Kamloops - Vancouver. Embarquement à bord du train Rocky Mountaineer et petit déjeuner. Vous continuerez votre voyage en direction ouest vers la ville de Vancouver. Vous suivrez le parcours de la rivière Thompson, vous admirerez les eaux tumultueuses des Portes de l'Enfer (Hell's Gate) et vous pénétrerez dans le canyon Fraser.
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The hub motor system was retained from previous iterations, and it helped the Overland Train Mark II to haul 150 tons at 20 mph for almost 400 miles on even terrain.
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by Bryon Dorr Exploring Alaska Growing up on the eastern shores of America I envisioned Alaska as a distant, remote wilderness filled with snow, bears and a few small native villages. Now I've traveled to and lived in far-off places around the globe, but I had yet to visit my 50th state, Alaska.
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Alaska Freight Lines of Seattle had contracted with Western Electric to provide 500 tons of equipment to the DEW stations being built in the Alaska sector. Hearing of the VC-12, on 5 January 1955 they signed a contract with LeTourneau for the construction of the VC-22 Sno-Freighter.
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Designed to traverse arctic conditions as well as sand and desert, the six-wheeled TC-497 Overland Train MkII used four Solar gas-turbine engines (at 1,170hp each, that's 4,680hp total) to spin generators that delivered juice to 54 total motors - one for each of its wheels.
