Alcan Highway

[king of obsolete]

richard, if you read the may edition of the newsletter,it tell how the famous black cat was a military trackson swing crane. the serial number even has the military numbers on it, so 1941 and i;m still useing it to make a living is no bad. also i have asked rene to join us from the linn tractor club in new york, because the linn tractors were used for military purposes too. i'll let rene explain. it is a very rare history about them. this picture is my 1945 linn tractor, one of 3 that i own, and one of the ones that moved the complete town of lynn lake in the early 1950's. hope you enjoy, there is lots of military history in northern manitoba, prime example is the air museum in brandon mb needed a military bus for their museum collection, i got them one out of the bush up here, very complete and delivered it to them. plus those flat nose trucks were used up here during the war to haul fish, there might be one or 2 on the bottom of the lake. the cold water up here does not rust anything, old cyril has lost a cat thru the ice and 4 years later salvaged it, and drove it home. thanks