When I first started working for the Trans Alaska Pipeline I took advantage of the fact that Fairbanks was where I operated out of. I called around, drove around, asked and inquired about Snow Cats. In the past I had always gotten good leads from old guy's that ran Electrric Motor Rewind shops and Welding and fabrication shops. So a friend in fairbanks points me to a welding shop that he was sure had been working on some guy's ST4. I drove over to the next town, North Pole Alaska, where they keep XMass lights up all year, and the streets have names like Santa Claus Lane and Elf Way. They have this little Post Office that they have to "Man-Up" with 50 postal workers around Christmas because of all the folks that want packages and XMass cards to bear the NorthPole Postal mark. There are 2 drop boxes, that one actually says Northpole Post mark, and the other says Fairbanks Postmark. So I track down this gentleman who was about to retire. He had been a Propane delivery guy in Alaska for 10 years, then a UPS driver for another 16 years. Over the course of one evening he gave me the location and crude maps of how to find every ST4 owner in half of Alaska. I moved to Northpole from washington. I spent the next year tracking down every owner I could. This one owner, a hunter, had this really trashed Trac Master. He had already totaled out his first one. On his second one the brake drums were WELDED on the the spline shafts! It had been rolled, possibly twice. Not much of a restoration candidate! Initially it was hard to tell it was a snow trac product. He had developed a method to cut a bunch of limbs, about inch and a half in diameter and use them to drive a machine that had detracked right back onto the tracks.