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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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The Only Way to Travel Yellowstone in Winter

Posted December 29, 2008 1:17 PM by dstrohl

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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12/30/2008 7:26 AM

Great vehicles if your fillings don't fall out or you don't go deaf driving one. Steering not that good either.

What could possibly be 'green' about them?

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12/30/2008 11:44 AM

Yeah, I'll swear the one in the pic is red as a fire engine...

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