The US Army Overland Train. At 570 feet long it qualified as the longest off-road vehicle in history. Four IH 1170 HP Solar Saturn turbine engines drove Westinghouse generators that powered DC traction motors at the wheels. Designed and built by R G LeTourneau, one of America's great self made men. He left school at age 14 and became, among other things, a foundry worker, welder, electrician, carpenter, miner, farmer, auto mechanic and racer, land leveler using a Holt tractor and scraper, etc. His factories eventually supplied 70% of the heavy earth moving equipment used by all Allied forces in World War II. Considered to this day to be the world's greatest builder of earth moving and materials handling equipment, he was finally awarded, at age 76, an engineering degree. He remarked: "So, I have a diploma. I'm finally educated."
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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