May 29, 2020 · You need to get 500 tons of supplies from Fairbanks, Alaska to the Arctic Ocean—a journey of about 400 miles through pure wilderness.

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 …

May 20, 2021 · With no less than 54 driven wheels, a length of 570 feet, and a total output of almost 5,000 horsepower, these are just some of the highlights that make up the massively impressive Overland...

Oct 27, 2015 · On a hillside along the Steese Highway south of Fox, Alaska sits a relic of the Cold War, a “sno-freighter” used in the mid-1950s to move supplies from Central Alaska to the Arctic coast for construction of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.

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.

English: Overland Trains or Alaskan Land Trains by the manufacturer LeTourneau are a series of transport vehicles built in six different versions in the 1950s and early 1960s. Originally designed to transport goods over snowy terrain, they were later used in Alaska by the US-Army as military transport vehicles.

Nov 19, 2009 · Originally conceived to assist logging in trackless wilderness, LeTourneau, famed for its earthmovers, devised the first of its land trains, the VC-12 Tournatrain, in 1953-1954 with a lead cab and three trailers.

English: The Alaskan land train was an experimental project in the late 1950s by the US Army to create a vehicle that could deliver logistics support without using roads. Power was gas turbine/electric hybrid and the basic train could transport 150 tonnes of supplies and had a …

Aug 6, 2019 · Why was this a better option in Alaska? And if it’s a better option there, why not in other places? Genuine questions, I love learning about this kinda stuff

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