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]1Sno-Train ...{Continued from P*fe 1) tact until an insurance adjuster can reach the scene.Loss of the engine means that the freight line will have to devise another method of hauling the load. They have used “Cat” trains on other phases of the oper- * t atlon. all winter and this is a possible alternative for them now.The train has only made one complete haul to the Arctic, It made transportation history during the winter of 1S55 by successfully reaching the Arctic coast after being especially built for the job by LeTourneau, Inc., a Texas state manufacturing firm. Unable to travel except after freeze-up in the roadless waste between Eagle and the Arctic ocean, it was left on the sea coast all last summer and had been brought down for a re-load early this month after a return journey south which took much of the winter.According to Riley they had been unable to get The Monster” nearer than 35 miles from Eagle and tractors were used to haul its load out to it.
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Mon, Apr 16, 1956
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