Jim Bartel

This first bus will be a model for Yellowstone and parks around the country, says Jim Bartel, president of Heart International.
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The operational features and benefits are projected to more than offset this premium over the lifecycle of the bus, Bartel says.

Representatives of Goodyear, which manufactures the rubber tracks, said they would only support the project if Omnitrac were brought in to mount them on the buses, said Jim Bartel, president of Heart International, of Grand Blanc, Mich., which designs and makes the buses themselves.
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Bartel hopes next winter 25 or more will be operating in Yellowstone, in a potential bonanza for Omnitrac.

The creation of the snowbus is timely.A recent ruling by a federal judge in Washington D.C., had the effect of reducing snowmobile numbers in the park to 493 a day from 950, and could eliminate the one- and two-person snow machines altogether by next winter, said Bartel.

Representatives of Goodyear, which manufactures the rubber tracks, said they would only support the project if Omnitrac were brought in to mount them on the buses, said Jim Bartel, president of Heart International, of Grand Blanc, Mich., which designs and makes the buses themselves.
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Bartel hopes next winter 25 or more will be operating in Yellowstone.

The creation of the snowbus is timely.A recent ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., had the effect of reducing snowmobile numbers in the park to 493 a day from 950, and could eliminate the one- and two-person snow machines altogether by next winter, said Bartel.