Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1918 — ARMY MOTOR TRANSPORT TAKING ON GAS EN ROUTE TO ATLANTIC COAST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ARMY MOTOR TRANSPORT TAKING ON GAS EN ROUTE TO ATLANTIC COAST

The photograph giver) herewith shows one of the army motortrucks, making up the motor train which carried munitions and supplies from Detroit to the Atlantic coast, replenishing its fuel supply “somewhere in Pennsylvania.” The new freight service was inaugurated by the quartermaster’s department to relieve railroad congestion. ‘ The tank car is one of the two that accompanied the train.