David EilersDecember 31, 2012

The Last Chancer: A Jeep Train in Helena, MT

The Last Chancer, a wooden train built on a jeep platform, is documented at the Helena History Museum. You can view additional pictures at the Museum page. A Last Chance Train still exists, but has been upgraded.

In this early picture taken in 1954 you can see what appears to be a CJ-3B peering out from it's enclosure.

Here is the Train as of 1957.

The Last Chancer made an appearance in the 1956 issue of Popular Science on page 104:

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1 Comment

Craig B.January 1, 2013 at 8:37 PM
If that isn't a classic shot from days gone by, I don't know what is? All the men in their "suit of clothes." Too bad liability keeps these scenes left to our history....