INTERIOR VIEW OF ONE OF THE LARGE WAREHOUSES AT BASSENS DOCKS, BORDEAUX, FRANCE.
Picture taken in April, 1918.
ICE PLANT, BUILT FOR THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES AT GIEVRES, FRANCE. IT IS THE THIRD LARGEST PLANT IN THE WORLD.
INTERIOR OF FREEZING ROOM OF ICE PLANT AT GIEVRES.
At Nevers, in the intermediate section, a condition existed requiring the construction of six miles of new double-track line, with a bridge over the Loire River 2,190 feet long. This piece of construction is known as the "Nevers Cut Off." It relieved the railroad congestion at this important point.
At Is-sur-Tille, in the advance section, was built a regulating station at which train loads of supplies and troops were dispatched to points where needed. Still farther toward the front, at Liffol-le-Grand, was another and smaller regulating station, controlling troop movements and the distribution of munitions and subsistence. Both of these projects were entirely new and were in useful operation when the war terminated.
In addition to the above projects, many storage yards, hospital tracks, ordnance depot yards, aviation center tracks, and construction tracks were laid out and built. In all 937 miles of single track were laid, thus fulfilling in the equivalent the prediction that to supply an American Army at the front we should have to build a double-track railroad from the French coast to the trenches.