Alcan Highway

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King of Obsolete wanted me to post about Linn tractors and WW2. Most of their work was on the civilian/construction side of things, like dams, factory sites, airfields, and the Canol project, they did alright on frozen ground but never floated well in the muskeg in the few weeks they call "summer" up there. Because the tracks are placed in about the same place as wheels would be, and a outrigger frame member to increase stability/rigidity of the track/weight distribution prevents them from just welding on wider track pads like they did with the Cats. I know on the Alcan they used a lot of Autocars and even Cletracs! The main thing as I understand it, there werer three main dumps like Johnson's Crossing where in recent years they began cleaning up the scrap abandonned along the roads up there, Don Chew of Brighton, CO, showed me aphotos of some complete looking WW2 trucks that were lined up along the road that in the space of a few years had been burnt out by vandals. Also one of the Cat powered pumping stations on the Canol route that had only recently been smashed up. I've seen the same sort of thing here in our much smaller "Adirondack park", would seem as if the anti-machinery people wanted to see that stuff removed from the wilderness, they would understand it would more likely be removed from the woods if it can be salvaged for use, instead of just for scrap metal.
Attached a 1937 Linn model "B" 20 ton capacirty, with semi-trailer for use at Arnold's Pond, ME by the Madawaska Lumber Co. (Sorry I don't have any military unit photos at hand)