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Show AMERICAN ENGINEERS INSTALL ENTIRE RAILWAYS IN" FRENCH WAR THEATRE The Corps of Engineers of the American Army since April has not only been supplying the Engineer equipment for more than 1,000,000 men, but the members of the railway rail-way section have undertaken to transport and install and put in operation oper-ation overseas a complete railway equipment. The cost of materials ordered to date is approximately $70,000,000, including some hundreds of locomotives, locomo-tives, more than 100,000 tons of steel rails, more than 3,000 complete turnouts, 500,000 ties, 12,000 freight cars, 600 fill and Dallast cars, 600 miles of telephone wire and apparatus, appar-atus, and vast quantities of construction construc-tion and repair equipment. A duty imposed upon the engineers has been the purchase of the necessary neces-sary Engineer equipment for more than 1,000,000 men. Within 15 days after the Engineer Corps, following the declaration of war, advertised for equipment, awards had been made covering the requirements for this vast force a total of 8,700,000 articles, including among other items 5 miles of pontoon bridge. The Engineers have also underta-' ken the work of organizing and equipping troops for special services,' such as lumber supply, road con-' struction, canitary construction, camouflage cam-ouflage service, gas and flame serv-. ice, mining work, and mapping. I |