LeTourneau Snow Train, 1950s (clip 2)  @alaskafilmarchives
LeTourneau Snow Train, 1950s (clip 2)  @alaskafilmarchives
Alaska Film Archives - UAF | LeTourneau Snow Train, 1950s (clip 2) @alaskafilmarchives | Uploaded November 2023 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
The Alaska Freight Lines LeTourneau Snow Train, an overland train, was used to resupply Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line sites in the Arctic during the mid-1950s (Color/Sound/16mm film).

This is an excerpt of AAF-1926 from the UAF collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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LeTourneau Snow Train, 1950s (clip 2) @alaskafilmarchives

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