It was built by the Pullman train car company, in Illinois
and in the below full size news article (click on it for full size) it says that it was abandoned in the antarctic due to it's being so heavy (37 tons and 55 feet long) that it immediately was stuck in and ice crevass. It's longest drive was from the factory near Chicago to the shipping docks in Boston... at 55 miles and hour
found on http://www.pullman-museum.org/cgi-bin/pvm/newGetSubjects.pl?subject=The%20Snow%20Cruiser
for more snow cruiser info and the video of it being unloaded and no surprise, it was too heavy fot the unloading ramp http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/antarctic-sno-cruiser-was-driven-to.html seems no one was really thinking in terms of how a 37 ton vehicle was to get around in a world not paved in concrete
Sunday, June 26, 2011
New Snow Cruiser photos and information found
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Bombardier B-12 snowmobile
from http://www.flickr.com/photos/djipibi/4373984169/sizes/o/in/photostream/
from http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/06/14/from-the-hemmings-nation-flickr-pool-a-trip-in-a-bombardier/
1957 B-12 , powered by a Chrysler Industrial straight six and three speeds with lever steering column. Denis customized the invention of the legendary Joseph-Armand Bombardier, replacing the wheels of the slides in the center by maple to give the vehicle more stability in loose snow. http://blogues.cyberpresse.ca/monvolant/descarries/2009/01/27/traverse-bombardier-et-mise-au-point/
Garett Walker Sledheads
I had heard about a vintage snowmobile rally in Eganville and it piqued my curiosity. With a growing interest in documenting regional cultural festivals in Canada, and as an outsider to snowmobile culture, I made my way northeast towards the Ottawa Valley. I’ve been documenting some of the lesser known Canadian cultural festivals, celebrations, and rituals of the present, attempting to construct an understanding of my own relationship to the multifarious notion of Canadian identity.
I have been documenting regional cultural events that are seldom seen outside their locales. These events are traditions that are important in building and maintaining regional communities in different places across Canada. As a country, Canada spans 9,984,670 square kilometres, making it the largest country in the western hemisphere. Its culture is as diverse as its geography, and so it is not so strange for me to feel like a foreigner inside the country I call home. This is one of the reasons why I wish to bring these activities into focus and share them with a larger public in hopes of including these hidden treasures in a larger picture of how we as Canadians view Canada.
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/visualarts/yorkquaycentreYQC09_6.cfm
Between 1945 and 1951, L’Auto-Neige Bombardier sold 2,596 vehicles. The Department of Public Works owned the majority of the B-12's up north and they were painted yellow
http://jproc.ca/rrp/chimo_photo_album.html
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Snow machines from SteampunkVehicles tumblr
How Ford delivered new cars... bet you (like me) never saw this before!
Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal reporters around a hundred years ago with a converted Model T
Above is another Wisconsin handmade snow machine that is marked with Wisconsin Conservation Dept
Alaska mail delivery in 1936Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Allrides has some cool stuff you oughta see
Just the thing to keep a farmer dry when using the tractor in the rain.
There are some things that have been done with VW vans that are a surprise to me, but making a bead blaster cabinet is pretty cool and useful, the waterfall in the garden... mighty unusual
a full size 4 door Caprice snow machine is a first.
see these and all the rest at http://allride.skynetblogs.be/index-12.html Saturday, February 12, 2011
The 1936 BMW snow machine
Top photo from http://motorcycle-74.blogspot.com
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Bring a Trailer, where the cool stuff for sale shows up
1951 Royal Spartanette trailer converted into a hauler
80's Dodge van sno cat
1914 Indian Model F
1954 Willys panel deliveryhttp://bringatrailer.com/
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Snowmobiles can fly. Anything that goes farther than the Wright brothers at Kittyhawk is really flying
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet.
Three more flights were made that day with Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm
Levi LaVallee went 361 feet on a snowmobile
From http://autozine.com.br/
Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
C'mon steampunk inventors, the snowmachine of 1914 needs your recreation efforts
from a postcard found featuring St Petersburg in 1914 http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/10/05/unusual-soviet-snowmobile-equipment/#more-18818
Necessity, the mother of invention
For a gallery of the homemade snow machines: http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/04/14/russian-homemade-snowmobiles/#more-12333
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Monday, December 27, 2010
Real unusual things from trailer washers, motorized wheels, to tank track Rolls Royces
Never seen one before, and something about the age of a black and white photo tells me that these are obsolete
I have no idea at all what this is
Ok, but why take it out if you have to add skis?
Really early car phone
Odd stuff on this tow truck
1890's and I was told it's a velocipede
Lenin's 1922 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost snow machine. Most expensive snow machine conversion? or strangest use for a Rolls Royce?
I've never seen a photo of a tractor involved in a car crash
no idea what the motorbike in front is
Never seen a train engine like this... must be for moving train cars around in a train yard
For packing dirt roads?
Early Daytona Beach racers with superchardged Auburns, before NASCAR took over racing on Daytona Beach
Click for full size to read the story
Two of the rare Jeeps the (1959) FC 59, but the below is even more rare
Model T tank
Love the motor wheels... I'd so love to ride one! This one was investigated by Hemmings Blog and you can read more about it: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2010/11/22/m-goventosas-one-wheel-to-obscurity/ it went 93mph... I doubt that anyone did that more than once given the conditions of roads in Italy in 1931 to 1933, that's when the above photo was taken, 1931
Puegeot in 1934, great designed car, looks like the top is coming down
Wipers on the inside and outside... and that might be Ron Howard... like Tere commented, it sure looks like him during the Andy Griffith show
