During the 70s as a dispatcher of truckers delivering building materials to northern regions, the drivers returned with stories that supported the need for this ACAT-1.
Did it ever get built and used in any form? I remember reading in Pierre Berton's The Last Spike that entire pieces of equipment and parts of bridges were swallowed up by the muskeg of which you write.
The National Research Council of Canada documented the trials of ACAT-1 in Laboratory Technical Report LTR-ENG-35 (1975). In my review of those records, engineers did build and operate the full-scale prototype. Rapid skirt wear from stumps, heavy fuel consumption, and severe lateral drift on slopes doomed commercial adoption.
During the 70s as a dispatcher of truckers delivering building materials to northern regions, the drivers returned with stories that supported the need for this ACAT-1.
Did it ever get built and used in any form? I remember reading in Pierre Berton's The Last Spike that entire pieces of equipment and parts of bridges were swallowed up by the muskeg of which you write.
The National Research Council of Canada documented the trials of ACAT-1 in Laboratory Technical Report LTR-ENG-35 (1975). In my review of those records, engineers did build and operate the full-scale prototype. Rapid skirt wear from stumps, heavy fuel consumption, and severe lateral drift on slopes doomed commercial adoption.
Must've been quite the sight. Thanks for your reply!