Snowmobiles and Penguins

[Kirk Armitage]

Hanno's pic showed a Muskeg carrier( engine in front) with tilting deck,drive shaft behind cab runs a cmp style winch.They have a transfer case in the back powering the winch and a driveshaft heading to the T16 diff in front. The red muskeg pictured is a tractor (engine is mounted to the rear). The armoured bombardier's had no rails to support the Boogies(must have been very heavy axles) but I have read of them being bent on their Arctic excursions. The 2 axles on the Muskeg are around 1"1/2 they need the rail for support. They are a great machine,maybe Bombardier should have used the whole axle assembly from the T16 in his design,instead of building a box to hold the diff(which is a water collector).Regardless of that these ''antiques'' which I and many others still use, designed 50 plus years ago are a testament to the '' vision'' of Bombardier.
Kirk Armitage