If you remember the Cold War, you'd know that it was a trying time of strife with Russia that led the U.S. government to fear that Russians might go over the Arctic Circle to get a nuclear bomber in America. Find out more at 🚀 Engineering
If you remember the Cold War, you'd know that it was a trying time of strife with Russia that led the U.S. government to fear that Russians might go over the Arctic Circle to get a nuclear bomber in America, consequently causing a nuclear apocalypse.
In order to avoid such dire circumstances, the U.S. needed to ensure that Soviet bombers were indeed not crossing the North Pole or to at least have the time to respond properly if they were with its own bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles. To do this, the Army planned the quick development of 63 manned radar stations in the high Arctic.
The next question then became: how could the Army transport all the materials needed to build the stations? That task fell upon The Western Electric Company, a subsidiary of AT&T who worked with TRADCOM, The U.S.
for multi-wheeled heavy-machinery. The special train used a combustion engine to spin an electric generator that would then send its power to hub motors.In 1953, LeTourneau introduced the VC-12, the firstIt was this train that grabbed the attention of TRADCOM.
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