I was watching PBS last week (yeah I got me some culture) and there was a Nature episode about Yellowstone National Park at Christmas time. Always on
the prowl for vehicle-related stuff, I was intrigued by the tracked
transport vehicles that were shown briefly during the show. Back at
work the next day I found a boatload of information about these
Bombardier R-12s including their history and some recent "green" news
about them too.
Bombardier built all of their snowcoaches in their Quebec manufacturing
plant. The company founder patented the rubber belt-drive system for
the snowcoach design in 1937. The first model produced was a B-7,
seven-passenger unit.
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