Maiden voyage to the Arctic.

The Snow Train was loaded up and set out for it's maiden voyage, there were a lot of people who had grave doubts as to whether this huge machine could possibly make such a trip, however it performed very well and reached the Arctic without any major problems, it was left on the trail after unloading and returned back to Eagle, Alaska on the Yukon River in the early winter of 1955 and reloaded for the much longer trip back to the Arctic 1900 miles northeast of Eagle, however this giant machine jack knifed ino a canyon which caused a fire and burned up all of the electrical system, this totally disabled it and they were forced to offload all of the freight onto sleds that were pulled by the Cats and went along with the rest of the truck convoy to their destinations. Cont.