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LeTourneau’s Land Trains

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This is a story of truly cool engineering and real men doing real work who don’t stop to pout about getting a little boo boo. It’s amazing that Letourneau isn’t better known.

The World’s Largest Overland Vehicles – LeTourneau’s Land Trains

UPDATE – I went to see one of these IRL! https://youtu.be/KpWv68xECrY 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.

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