That is really neat. When I first went to work at Eastman Kodak in Longview, there were several old machinists there that worked at LeTourneau back then. They had all kinds of great stories of working on some weird stuff. I wish they were still alive to ask them if they worked on this.

Greatness.

"Working together, Canadian and American governments determined they would need about 500 tons of materials to construct all of these outposts. With no suitable runways or ports and heavy lift helicopters still in their infancy, it would all have to be hauled in over land. The task of figuring out how exactly to get that done fell to the same company that had been chosen to build the stations themselves—The Western Electric Company, a subsidiary of AT&T.

Solving unsolvable logistics issues wasn't exactly its forte. But with the help of TRADCOM (U.S. Army Transportation Research and Development Command), it found the one company—more accurately, the one man—that might be able to help."

Gonna save and read tomorrow when I have more time!