Caterpillar Tractor Co.
Tuesday, 7th June 2005 by Alex Turnbull
Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.
Outside of Sun City West, Arizona are the Caterpillar Proving Grounds, where there is some extremely large type!
I wonder if the bulldozers prove themselves by digging out these letters over and over again?
Thanks to Yablo and Jeff Burton.
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
now thats cool! better than the usal large type stuff in the ground.
Here are some more proving grounds. Unfortunately, it is a part of the map with little detail.
View Placemark / Google Earth
That is insane on how perfectly aligned the type is.
Jeff Burton… the nascar driver? I know his brother Ward used to drive the Caterpillar car, he may still I dunno.
The letters were actually raised up above the ground a little bit (a foot or so) with different material so nothing grew on them. This picture is dated because the housing development has almost completely erased the Catepillar sign over the past few months.
Sorry People that is not Sun City, Arizona. It is the Community of Verrado in Buckeye, AZ. Located at the South end of White Tanks Mountains. I live just South of I-10 in Sundance. I even found my house.
This placemark shows a neighborhood now. I can’t find any letters anywhere. My satellite images are dated December 10, 2006. All the posts here are from 2005. Are these letters gone now?
Hey Bryan,
Sadly the letters have been completely replaced since this post was written. We wrote more about the expanding town and the history of the letters in our book, but you can always use the historical images feature in Google Earth to see what used to be there!