The pics of the TD24 brought back some instant memories of one I used in Rhode Island during and after a northeaster brought in about three feet of heavy wet snow. I was assigned to break a trail on the road leading from the Seabee Base at Davisville over to the naval station at Quonset Point. That took half a day to cover about 4 miles. Then I was told to break the roads open around Quonset starting at the main gate to the airfield. I finished up the day well after dark by making some parking available in front of my barracks for me and my pals -- who were also on snow removal duty. As the chow hall had closed by that time, seven of us took my car, a 69 Oldsmobile 88, off base and finally found a pizzeria open over in Narraganset where we had several of the best pizza's I ever remember.
The next morning we were back at it as it snowed even more overnight. I broke a trail down the main runway so the base snowplows could get a running start, and had to go back to help then finish off when the snow-banks got too high to handle. Otherwise I plowed in every direction I was pointed for the rest of that day and the next. Then I got put on an Awful-Western Pacer 100, one of the most ill-conceived motor graders ever built in my not so humble opinion. I worked the rest of the week with that all over both bases.
The TD24 worked steadily all thorough the storm. It was set up much like the one in these pictures with no cab nor canopy. It did have the big winch, which I used a lot, but the dozer was a bullgrader style and it was hydraulic. Oh yeah, it was painted Olive Drab too.
I froze my behinder off on the 24 and the Pacer as we were not given foul-weather clothing. One of the guys knew someone over in the Antarctic Support Activity group and that fella finally supplied us with parkas, Mickey-Mouse boots, and huge mittens. I bought some insulated underwear off-base and about wore them out over the course of two weeks.