In the mid to late 50s and early 60s, a series of innovative and unique vehicles were tested in both the punishing arctic north as well as the boiling deserts of Yuma, Arizona. Some fo the longest and largest vehicles ever built, they were as strange and uniue as they were revolutionary. But who built these vehicles, why were they made and where are they now?
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Video tour of the Mk II interior:
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00:00 - Introduction
02:00 - RG LeTourneau: Born to Invent
04:52 - The Tournatow & LeTourneau's Electric Drive
08:45 - The V-12 Tournatrain: The First Overland Train
10:48 - Building The DEW Line & Alaska Freight Lines
14:40 - The Sno Freighter
17:15 - The Sno Frieghter Goes North
20:42 - The Sno Freighter's Firey End
22:05 - Where is the Sno Freighter Now?
23:14 - US Army Interest & The Sno Buggy
24:43 - The LCC-1 Sno Train
27:30 - Sold For Surplus
27:48 - Where is the Sno Train Now?
28:10 - The Final Overland Train
29:00 - The TC-497 Overland Train Mark II
31:00 - Interior Features & Crew Space
32:05 - Nuclear Powered Land Trains?
32:55 - Land Train Development Stopped
33:30 - The Rise of the Helicopter
33:58 - Where is the TC-497 Now?
34:34 - Bigfoot Monster Trucks
35:01 - RG LeTourneau: The End of an Era]
35:55 - LeTourneau after LeTourneau
36:30 - The Land Train Legacy
36:48 - Outro & Credits & Waffling on a bit
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