Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1918 — AMERICAN RAILROAD MATERIAL IN FRANCE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMERICAN RAILROAD MATERIAL IN FRANCE

It Is nothing new for American railway material and equipment to go to France, or any other part of the civilized world, but such a railway as our engineers are bullding back of the lines in France is something-wholly new ta our industrial or military history. The recent government-purchase of 150,000 tons of 80-ponnd rails for it gives a new conception of the magnitude of tne undertaking that we have entered on in France. That means, according to the Railway Age Gazette, enough rails for 600 miles of double track. It will all be used in building a line, with terminal developments, sidings, etc., from the French port to the portion of the western front that our boys in olive drab will occupy, and will be used for transporting them and their supplies.

UNLOADING STEEL RAILS AT A FRENCH PORT.