Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-26 | Page 12 | Entire Railroads Moved to France by Americans

! ENURE RAILROADS MOVED TO FRANCE BY AMERICANS' Hlx hundred and seventy-one complete locomotives were turned out of the shops up to September 1. By October 1 ths output had passed the 7 SO mark. The plant was started October 15, 1917, but It took ' three months for It to get under way. Of the output all except 160 locomotives ars being drrren -try American engineers and firemen, all of them enlisted men, over niw American-laid trackage or French fines. The I'X) engines wers losned to the French state railroad. There are a 00 men working In the loco- ; motive erection shop end fifty mors In the yards reclaiming the lumber out of the packing canon in which the parts are shipped. They belong to the th engineers. engi-neers. They Inrtude skilled mechanics snd men just out of shop spprentlceshlp back home and men who never saw the Inside of a machine shop. They're mostly volunteers. vol-unteers. Many were malting from $125 to li'H) a month working at their trade j in the ft tat. Now they're making ) a month soldier avery one of them, put -I ling together the locomotives to pull the I trains that carry bullets and beans to their comrades at the front. ( The ppeed of the locomotive plant's output out-put Is being increased hy the arrival of I more and more specially constructed . ships that carry "set up" locomotives. One brought fifteen ss one load. ..each engine parked Into the ship's hold with bale of hay and bags of oats and beans and bran. As a sort of a side Issue the army 1 locomotive works a I ho turns out steam hovels, railroad pile drivers snd locomotive locomo-tive cranes. It doesn't handle freight cars, they are aseemhled at a plant located lo-cated at another Atlantic port.