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Alaska Cat Trains
- Thread starter Lyndon
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The Blue units in the background are the actual "Cat Train". roughly 10 of these will be pulled across the frozen tundra by a modified Cat D7, D8, or D9 dozer. they have sleeping rooms, Showers, bath facilities, laundry facilities, a Diner, a medical unit, a communications unit, and power generation equipment.
Donald McMullin
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Interesting pictures, thanks for the post.
A count of the equipment: 8 Tucker Terra's, 12 CAT Dozers, some with steel tracks, some with rubber, 8 of the large tracked trucks, make unknown, 4 or 5 of the articulated tracked tractor(Red) John Deer?, 3 Haglunds, 20 "Cat Train" cars, and some 6 tanker sleds. I'll try to get a more accurate count and the makes and some other pictures later this week. They have several complete Divisions like this operating in the greater Prudhoe Bay area.
Thanks Lyndon! Those are cool pictures!
Good Morning! it's -26 this morning at 5;30 AM and we will reach our LOW at about 10:00 AM. The Big units in question are NOT equipped with Mattracks. They are a specially built vehicle. I'll find out today what make they are. It used to be that the favored vehicles of Western Geco were Nodwell and Foremost, which is all one company in Canada that has built this type of specialty equipment for many years. Foremost has produced esentially a "Monster Truck" that wears tires similar to the modern mosnter trucks. But they started producing them in the 40's or 50's, long before the current 'Fad'. Nodwell is Foremost tracked vehicle division. Check out their web site. They build the largest of the tracked vehicles.
Good Morning Lyndon,
Great pictures! -26 man that is starting to get cold. Those vehicles in the pictures. Do they keep the engines running all night or are they pretty much staying where they are at for awhile? (no little excursions) Can you get some pictures of the inside of one of those train cabins? The whole concept is pretty cool. Stay warm and safe.
Great pictures! -26 man that is starting to get cold. Those vehicles in the pictures. Do they keep the engines running all night or are they pretty much staying where they are at for awhile? (no little excursions) Can you get some pictures of the inside of one of those train cabins? The whole concept is pretty cool. Stay warm and safe.
Are the train vehicles (blue) are they on skis or tracks? Cant really see. Thanks.
