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Anyone Ever Seen The Alaskan "Snow Freighter"?

Don Coyote

Don Coyote

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I just stumbled across this on YouTube.....





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Back in 2010 i was in it, it was in Fox just across from the pipeline, was also in the snow train which was in a junkyard in Fairbanks. R.G. Letourneau made some pretty impressive machines. I have a bunch of pictures of both machines.The snow train was saved from the scrapper and is now in Whitehorse i believe. Don
 
loggah said:
Back in 2010 i was in it, it was in Fox just across from the pipeline, was also in the snow train which was in a junkyard in Fairbanks. R.G. Letourneau made some pretty impressive machines. I have a bunch of pictures of both machines.The snow train was saved from the scrapper and is now in Whitehorse i believe. Don
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Photos would be appreciated! :ThumbsUp:
 
Don Horter produced the movie Wheels to the Arctic in 1955, some of it is in the above thread. I met him in 1957. I believe he also produced a film with Mack trucks in Alaska too.
 
One of them (the last one I think) is at the Yuma proving ground just north of Yuma AZ. I saw it years ago there. I believe it is still there.
 
Im charging up an old phone right now.

In that phone are a pile of photos of a snow train type rig i touched last summer in alaska. It was driven to where the earth is reclaiming it. The engine is still in it and free.
(I need to remember to post is my challenge these days)
 
redsqwrl said:
Im charging up an old phone right now.

In that phone are a pile of photos of a snow train type rig i touched last summer in alaska. It was driven to where the earth is reclaiming it. The engine is still in it and free.
(I need to remember to post is my challenge these days)
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Oh man, that would be awesome. It’s crazy. My girls are absolutely fascinated with these old machines. Anything vintage that’s driven on the snow ice or even in the dirt if it has tracks!
 
This was dragged out or Berni Karl’s junk yard in Fairbanks and dumped at the museum in Whitehorse
Used on the DEW line the other was Lyndon transport kinda sorta grand idea of arctic transport
Work ok till they caught the drive generator on fire went cheep on the fire extinguishers and it bit em
 

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