LeTourneau Snow Train, 1950s (clip 2) @alaskafilmarchives
LeTourneau Snow Train, 1950s (clip 2)  @alaskafilmarchives
Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks 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)

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