Sno-Freighter
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sno-freighter-173-3537639
title:
Sno-Freighter
text:
The Sno-Freighter is a one-of-a-kind land vehicle designed by LeTourneau Technologies for Alaska Freight Lines in the 1950s. During that decade, Alaska Freight Lines won the contract to transport construction material to build the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW) in far northern Alaska and Canada. At the time, no roads crossed the Arctic Circle in North America, there were almost no runways for air transportation, and the polar ice cap prevented seaborne transport. LeTourneau had built a series
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1950s singular heavy land vehicle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sno-Freighter
date created:
2009-07-18T09:15:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T16:48:58Z
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13
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