Greenland – Overland Trains

Camp Century Groundwater

Camp Century, Greenland was an American Cold War era under-ice base designed for research and development. It hosted the first…

On New Years night, December 31, 1954, Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Margaret Whiting, Bill Holding, Jerry Colona, and others travelled…

The Rolling Liquid Transporters (RLT (Model T-3)) are 1,000 gallon fuel vessels. These were unique in that the primary storage…

The Sno-Train arrived in Greenland in June 1956. It was being tested in extreme conditions. The Army Transportation Corps was…

In 1955, Christmas dinner looked and felt a little different for Air Force Service Members at the “Top of the…

The TC-264 Sno-Buggy spent some time in Greenland testing out the HUGE Firestone 120x48x68s and a few unpowered trailers. It…

Camp Century was a United States military installation buried under the northwestern tip of the Greenland ice sheet. It was…

Last month I was contacted by a man who said that his father worked at R.G. LeTourneau’s Longview, TX factory.…

The Russian humor/satirical magazine “Crocodile” began publishing in 1922. During the United States Greenland build-up, the Soviets were watching us…

In the late 1950s, the United States Army (USAR) started carving ice tunnels in the Greenland ice shelf. The tunnels…

In 1966, after 3 years of drilling, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratories (CRREL) reached 4,550 feet deep in the…

the Norwegian Antarctic Research Program’s Thule Station was established in 1995. It is located in Pituffik, Greenland (Thule Air Base…