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The cargo was off-loaded onto either "Cat" trains (Caterpillar bulldozers pulling cargo sleds) or one of the eleven 1956 Mack LRVSW semi trucks that Alaska Freight Lines had purchased to supplement the Sno-Freighter. Today, the Sno-Freighter is abandoned and lies next to the Steese Highway in Fox, Alaska.
The overland train concept first developed as a way to haul trees out of the bush, without the need to prepare a road capable of supporting a traditional truck. A truck would need to have a surface flat and strong enough for its driven wheels, normally four at the rear of the cab, to gain traction needed to climb any grades.
Tucker Sno-Cats are still considered a premier extreme condition vehicle, [citation needed] and are still in use in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Of the three Tucker Sno-Cats that traveled to the South Pole, door-code 'A' is on display in the Antarctic section of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand.
(Reuters) -Online travel agency Booking.com could cut jobs as part of a review of its organizational structure, it said on Saturday. The company, a unit of Booking Holdings, said in an emailed ...
HME's fire apparatus carry the model name designations SilverFox and HME Ahrens-Fox. [ 1 ] HME was the first custom fire truck manufacturer to build a tilt cab model cab-over chassis and the first manufacturer to create a compressed natural gas -powered fire apparatus .
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Arctic Fox Daily is an independent, home-based rescue organization for wild foxes and other creatures in upstate New York. When Kimberly DeFisher, who runs the rescue, got news of the fox’s ...
Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to “Arctic Convoy,” a Norwegian naval thriller that is set in the middle of World War II. The film is from the producers of “The Wave” trilogy ...