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Show American Engineers Build Railways in France The official review of the first year of war issued by the Committee on Public Information contained the following description of the work of American engineers in France: . American engineers have gone into in-to French forests and done the work Of the pioneers of our own Northwest. North-west. They have frequently been under fire. One of their first tasks was the reconstruction and extension of a railroad 600 miles long to carry our products from ports of disembarkation disem-barkation to general bases of opevr,-tion. opevr,-tion. The First Engineer troops, 1,100 strong, arrived In France about three months after war was declared. de-clared. Since then the number has been greatly augmented. These troops have been constantly engaged In general engineering work, including includ-ing the construction of railways, docks, wharves, cantonments and hospitals. 'An American Army locomotive was built in this country in 21 days and shipped to the Expeditionary Forces. Many other locomotives, cars, logging trains, trucks, dissembled dissem-bled buildings and other equipment have been shipped to augment the output and facilitate the construction construc-tion operations of American forces abroad. |